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Detection of carcinogenic human papillomavirus in specimens collected with a novel self-sampling device
Philip E Castle1, Asma Aftab, Gilbert Saint-Jean
1Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-7234, USA. castlep@mail.nih.gov
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|June 8, 2006
Abstract:
We compared the detection of carcinogenic human papillomavirus DNA in cervicovaginal specimens self-collected using a novel device to the detection in physician-collected cervical specimens from 137 women. The kappa value was 0.66 (95% confidence interval, 0.53 to 0.78), with an 83% overall test agreement and a 68% positive test agreement.