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. 2008 Feb;46(2):740-2.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01981-07. Epub 2007 Oct 31.

Cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in South African women: implications for HPV screening and vaccine strategies

Bruce Allan  1 , Dianne J Marais, Margaret Hoffman, Samuel Shapiro, Anna-Lise Williamson
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Cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in South African women: implications for HPV screening and vaccine strategies

Bruce Allan et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Feb.

Abstract

The prevalence of cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) in South African women (n = 1,073) increased from 20.4% (173/848) in women with normal cytology to 41.7% (48/115) in women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance, 70.2% (40/57) in women with low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, and 83% (44/53) in women with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs). HPV types 16 and 35 were the dominant types in women with HSILs but not in women in the other categories.

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