Assessing Gammapapillomavirus infections of mucosal epithelia with two broad-spectrum PCR protocols

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 HPV detection in 458 samples of mucosal epithelia

	Patients (n)	Samples (n)	HPV-prevalence n (%)	No. of detected HPV types	No. of detected novel putative HPV types	No. of detected HPV species	Detected multiple infections n (%)
Anal canal swabs	226	249	192 (85)	67	4	29	105 (48)
Cervical cancer biopsies	94	94	44 (47)	6	0	3	7 (7)
Genital wart samples	21	21	13 (62)	3	0	3	1 (5)
Oral swabs	94	94	4 (4)	3	0	3	3 (3)
Total	435	458	253 (55)	70^a	4	30^b	116 (25)

^aThe following 9 HPV types were identified in different sets of samples: HPV6, HPV11 and HPV-EV07c385 (anal canal and genital warts); HPV16, HPV33, HPV45 and HPV58 (anal canal and cervical cancer); HPV18 (anal canal, cervical cancer and oral swabs); HPV38 (anal canal and oral swabs)
^bThe following PV species were identified in different sets of samples: Alpha-7 (anal canal, cervical cancer and oral swabs); Alpha-9 (anal canal and cervical cancer); Alpha-10 and Gamma-18 (anal canal and genital warts); Beta-2 (anal canal and oral swabs)

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