Human Papillomavirus Genotypes From Vaginal and Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia in Females 15-26 Years of Age

Suzanne M Garland1, Elmar A Joura, Kevin A Ault

  • 1Department of Microbiology Infectious Diseases, the Royal Women's Hospital, Department of Microbiology, the Royal Children's Hospital, Infection and Immunity, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas; Institut Catala d'Oncologia, IDIBELL, CIBER-ESP, RTICC, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; the Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; the Department of Pathology, SMBD Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia; the Center for Infection Research in Cancer, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida; the National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico; the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama; the Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen/Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; the Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinica Colsanitas, Fundacion Universitaria Sanitas, Bogota, Colombia; Institut du col, Paris, France; the National Institute of Cancer, Bogotá, Colombia; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Direction des Risques Biologiques et de la Santé au Travail, Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Robert E. Fechner Laboratory of Surgical Pathology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Departments of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico; UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, California; Merck & Co, Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey; Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia; and Analytica LASÉR, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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