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. 1988;102(1-2):141-6.
doi: 10.1007/BF01315571.

Correlation of histologic types of carcinoma of the uterine cervix and human papillomavirus and herpes simplex virus type 2 DNA sequences in the uterine cervical biopsies

P Seth  1 , H Kaur, R Kaur, K Verma, N Manjunath
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Correlation of histologic types of carcinoma of the uterine cervix and human papillomavirus and herpes simplex virus type 2 DNA sequences in the uterine cervical biopsies

P Seth et al. Arch Virol. 1988.

Abstract

Forty patients with invasive cancer of cervix from New Delhi were examined for the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2 DNA sequences in a Southern hybridization assay. Data were analysed according to the histologic type of cancer. HPV DNA sequences were detected in 82.5% biopsies and HSV-2 DNA sequences were found in 10% biopsies. HPV-16 DNA sequences were found either alone or together with HPV-18 and/or HSV-2 Bgl II N fragment in 55% biopsies from keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma, whereas HPV-18 sequences were found in 35% biopsies. Similarly, 50% biopsies from patients with non keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma contained HPV-16 DNA and 38.9% biopsies had HPV-18 DNA. HSV-2 Bgl II N DNA sequences were present in 10% biopsies which were also positive for HPV-16 and/or HPV-18 DNA sequences. Two biopsies from adenocarcinoma of uterine cervix contained HPV-18 and HPV-16 DNA sequences. Therefore, no significant correlation seems to exist between HPV-types and histologic types or grades of differentiation of tumor.

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