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PLOS ONE
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100746
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- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Espirito Santo [FAPES/MS/CNPq/SESA003/2009]
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH) [U01 CA78527]
- CAPES Foundation
- Ministry of Education of Brazil
- CAPES-PDSE
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HPV16 accounts for 50-70% of cervical cancer cases worldwide. Characterization of HPV16 variants previously indicated that they differ in risks for viral persistence, progression to cervical precancer and malignant cancer. The aim of this study was to examine the association of severity of disease with HPV16 variants identified in specimens (n = 281) obtained from a Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy outpatient clinic in the University Hospital of Espirito Santo State, Southeastern Brazil, from April 2010 to November 2011. All cytologic and histologic diagnoses were determined prior to definitive treatment. The DNA was isolated using QIAamp DNA Mini Kit and HPV was detected by amplification with PGMY09/11 primers and positive samples were genotyped by RFLP analyses and reverse line blot. The genomes of the HPV16 positive samples were sequenced, from which variant lineages were determined. Chi(2) statistics was performed to test the association of HPV16 variants between case and control groups. The prevalence of HR-HPV types in
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