Estimating incidence rates of grouped HPV types: A systematic review and comparison of the impact of different epidemiological assumptions

Background: Some studies on human papillomavirus (HPV) provide not only type-specific incidence rates (IR), but also IRs of HPV groupings (e.g. the nonavalent grouping). We made an inventory of the different approaches used to calculate such IRs and assessed their impact on the estimated IRs of HPV...

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Main Authors: Vita W. Jongen, Daniëla K. van Santen, Catharina J. Alberts, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
Series:Papillomavirus Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405852119300102