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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 203, Issue 3, Pages 341-343Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiq056
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- Brussels Capital Region of Brussels, Prospective Research for Brussels
- Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS/FRSM convention 3.4568.09), ASBL Les Amis de l'Institut Pasteur de Bruxelles
- Fondation Rose et Jean Hoguet
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is an epitheliotropic virus typically infecting keratinocytes but also possibly epithelial trophoblastic placental cells. In the present study, we set out to investigate whether HPV can be recovered from transabdominally obtained placental cells to avoid any confounding contamination by HPV-infected cervical cells. Thirty-five placental samples from women undergoing transabdominal chorionic villous sampling were analyzed, and we detected HPV-16 and HPV-62 in 2 placentas. This study suggests that HPV infection of the placenta can occur early in pregnancy. The overall clinical implication of these results remains to be elucidated.
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