The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a non-enveloped DNA virus transmitted through skin-to- skin contact that infects epithelial and mucosal tissue. It has over 200 known genotypes …
K Effah, E Tekpor, CM Wormenor… - PLOS Global Public …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Cytology-based cervical cancer screening programs have been difficult to implement and scale up in developing countries. Thus, the World Health Organization recommends a 'see …
Background Low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) account for nearly 85% of the global cervical cancer burden, yet have the least access to high-performance screening …
K Effah, CM Wormenor, E Tekpor… - PLOS Global Public …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In response to calls by the World Health Organization for cervical precancer screening services in low-resource settings to lean toward HPV DNA testing, a number of testing …
K Effah, E Tekpor, CM Wormenor, SA Bosoka… - BMC Women's …, 2024 - Springer
Background Cervical cancer continues to disproportionately burden women in low/middle- income countries like Ghana. We examined treatment patterns and histopathological …
IM Poynten, F Jin, M Molano, DA Machalek… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Anal cancer is preceded by high-risk human papillomavirus (HRHPV) infection, predominantly HPV16. No HPV assay is licenced for use in anal screening. We aimed to …
A Murangwa, KT Desai, JC Gage, G Murenzi… - African Journal of …, 2022 - scielo.org.za
MURANGWA, Anthere et al. Agreement between Xpert and AmpFire tests for high-risk human papillomavirus among HIV-positive women in Rwanda. Afr. J. Lab. Med.[online] …
Introduction Young sexual minority men (SMM) bear the greatest burden of anal human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. We assessed anal HPV genotype discordance between the …
C Mungo, A Guliam, L Chinula, F Inturrisi… - Infectious Agents and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The World Health Organization recommends human papillomavirus (HPV) testing for primary cervical cancer screening, including among women living with HIV …