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A Comparison of Cervical and Vaginal Human Papillomavirus
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 10/29/07

Castle, P.E., et al. - We wanted to compare detection of a broad spectrum of human papillomavirus (HPV) types detected in cellular specimens from the vagina and cervix, which could provide information about the potential of each anatomical site for harboring infection...Conclusions: Carcinogenic HPV types appeared to have a similar affinity for vaginal and cervical epithelium, but noncarcinogenic HPV types of the [alpha]3/[alpha]15 phylogenetic species may have a tropism for vaginal epithelium