In a very interesting and provocative article, Antonsson et al. reported a high prevalence of known or as-yet-uncharacterized human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes on the healthy skin of immunosuppressed and immunocompetent individuals, as detected by a PCR approach (1). This demonstrates unambiguously the ubiquity and great multiplicity of cutaneous HPVs, in agreement with previous reports (2-5).
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