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SUBMITTER: Markowitz LE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8577198 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Markowitz Lauri E LE Schiller John T JT
The Journal of infectious diseases 20210901 12 Suppl 2
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are among the most effective vaccines available, the first to prevent infection by a mucosatropic sexually transmitted infectious agent and to do so without specific induction of mucosal immunity. Currently available prophylactic HPV vaccines are based on virus-like particles that self-assemble spontaneously from the L1 major capsid protein. The first HPV vaccine was licensed in 2006. All vaccines target HPV-16 and HPV-18, types which cause the majority of HPV ...[more]