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To examine the frequency, behavioral determinants, and clinical consequences of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infections that persist over multiple years.

August 11, 2008The Journal of Infectious DiseasesOpen Access

Persistence of Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection in a Long‐Term Follow‐Up Study of Female University Students

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To examine the frequency, behavioral determinants, and clinical consequences of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infections that persist over multiple years.
Follow-up evaluation conducted 4 to 12 years after initial participation in a longitudinal cohort study of incident HPV infection among former female university students (N = 147 with undergraduate HPV detection).
Examinations included HPV genotyping of cervical and vulvovaginal swabs, colposcopy-directed biopsies, and variant-specific DNA sequence analyses.
At follow-up, 24 of 147 women (16.3%) were positive for one or more identical HPV types detected during college, with 27 of 567 (4.8%) type-specific infections persisting; DNA sequence analyses confirmed that all persisting infections were variant-specific.
Long-term persistence was positively associated with sporadic early detection of the same type, abnormal Pap tests, and genital warts, negatively associated with marriage, and unrelated to the number of intercurrent sex partners.

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Longitudinal cohort study observes long-term genital HPV persistence in young women, indicating true viral latency rather than frequent reinfection drives associated lesions.

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Sycuro et al. (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a709accce524a4339c45264 https://doi.org/10.1086/591625

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Longitudinal cohort study observes long-term genital HPV persistence in young women, indicating true viral latency rather than frequent reinfection drives associated lesions.

Persistence of Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection in a Long‐Term Follow‐Up Study of Female University Students

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