Good agreements between self and clinician-collected specimens for the detection of human papillomavirus in Brazilian patients

Women infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) are at a higher risk of developing cervical lesions. In the current study, self and clinician-collected vaginal and cervical samples from women were processed to detect HPV DNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with PGMY09/11 primers. HPV genotypes...

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Main Authors: Karla Lopes Mandu de Campos, Ana Paula Machado, Flávia Gatto de Almeida, Camila Mareti Bonin, Thiago Theodoro Martins Prata, Larissa Zatorre Almeida, Cacilda Tezelli Junqueira Padovani, Alda Maria Teixeira Ferreira, Carlos Eurico dos Santos Fernandes, Inês Aparecida Tozetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2014-06-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762014000300352&lng=en&tlng=en