[How did I contract human Papillomavirus (HPV)?]
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Date publication
mars 2010
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr GRAESSLIN Olivier
Tous les auteurs :
Gavillon N, Vervaet H, Derniaux E, Terrosi P, Graesslin O, Quereux C
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Résumé
More than 120 genotypes have been identified among the Papillomavirus (HPV) family. These viruses are ubiquitary with skin or mucous membrane tropism and cause various pathologies from wart to neoplasia. HPV family is classified according to their tropism. Genital HPV infection is considered as the most frequent sexually transmitted disease in the world. Seventy-five percent of women will be in contact with HPV at least one time in their life. HPV is usually transmitted through direct skin-to-skin contact, more often during penetrative genital contact. Other types of genital contact in the absence of penetration can lead to HPV infection, but those routes of transmission are much less common than sexual intercourse. However, virgins (
Référence
Gynecol Obstet Fertil. 2010 Mar;38(3):199-204