PRESENT ASPECTS OF HPV INFECTION Part II
Abstract:
People are living surrounded by an environment of omnipresent HPV viruses. A part of these viruses brings about certain lesions, some benign, some of malign potential. Some of these viruses infect the mucous membrane (especially the anogenital one) with a large frequency among the young patients causing cervix cancer (in women), anal and penis cancer, in men. In most of the cases, cervical HPV infection is temporary and asymptomatic. The most spread HPV viruses of oncogenic risks are the types 16 and 18. The screenings for cervix lesions consist in Pap test or liquid-base cytology for detecting HPV virus. Depending on the type of lesion, certain management strategies have been suggested. Today, in order to prevent the HPV cervix infection, the HPV vaccine is being used, being available as a bivalent vaccine (for 16 and 18 HPV types) and as a quadrivalent vaccine (for 6, 11, 16 and 18 HPV types). These vaccines have proved to be very efficient in 5-year studies, so that certain countries have adopted strategies of mass vaccination.
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