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SUBMITTER: Sias C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7723855 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sias Catia C Guarrasi Valerio V Minosse Claudia C Lapa Daniele D Del Nonno Franca F Capobianchi Maria Rosaria MR Garbuglia Anna Rosa AR Del Porto Paola P Paci Paola P
Frontiers in microbiology 20201125
Non-nonavalent vaccine (9v) Human papillomavirus (HPV) types have been shown to have high prevalence among HIV-positive women. Here, 1444 cervical samples were tested for HPV DNA positivity. Co-infections of the 9v HPV types with other HPV types were evaluated. The HPV81 <i>L1</i> and <i>L2</i> genes were used to investigate the genetic variability of antigenic epitopes. HPV-positive samples were genotyped using the HPVCLART2 assay. The L1 and L2 protein sequences were analyzed using a self-opti ...[more]