Amongst the human papillomaviruses (HPVs), the genus Alphapapillomavirus contains HPV
types that are uniquely pathogenic. They can be classified into species and types based on …

Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes virtually all cervical cancers and many cancers at other
anatomical sites in both men and women. However, only 12 of 448 known HPV types are …

Viruses belonging to the Papillomaviridae family have been isolated from a variety of
mammals, birds and non-avian reptiles. It is likely that most, if not all, amniotes carry a broad …

Background: HPV16 is a common sexually transmitted infection although few infections lead
to cervical precancer/cancer; we cannot distinguish nor mechanistically explain why only …

Naturally occurring genetic variants of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) are common
and have previously been classified into 4 major lineages; European-Asian (EAS), including …

Background: Factors that favour a small proportion of HPV16 infections to progress to cancer
are still poorly understood, but several studies have implicated a role of HPV16 genetic …

HPV16 causes half of cervical cancers worldwide; for unknown reasons, most infections
resolve within two years. Here, we analyze the viral genomes of 5,328 HPV16-positive case …

To date, more than 400 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) have been identified. Despite
the creation of effective prophylactic vaccines against the most common genital HPVs, the …

Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are a group of divergent DNA viruses, of which a select few
evolutionarily related HPVs have emerged to be highly oncogenic and of significant medical …

For unknown reasons, there is huge variability in risk conferred by different HPV types and,
remarkably, strong differences even between closely related variant lineages within each …