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SUBMITTER: Wissing MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736425 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wissing Michel D MD Louvanto Karolina K Comète Emilie E Burchell Ann N AN El-Zein Mariam M Rodrigues Allita A Tellier Pierre-Paul PP Coutlée François F Franco Eduardo L EL
The Journal of infectious diseases 20190801 7
<h4>Background</h4>We studied the association between human papillomavirus (HPV) viral load (VL) and HPV concordance.<h4>Methods</h4>The HITCH cohort study included young, heterosexual, recently formed, sexually active couples. Questionnaires and genital samples were collected at 0 and 4 months. Samples were tested for HPV DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR; Linear Array). VLs of HPV6/11/16/18/31/42/51 were quantified using type-specific real-time PCR. Correlations between VL and type-specifi ...[more]