Prevalence and Distribution of Human Papillomavirus Genotypes Among Women in Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of the Congo

The distribution of HPV genotypes among women in our population was different compared with other world regions. A key finding was that HPV68 was the most prevalent high-risk HPV genotype. These findings highlight the need for the determination in our population of the etiologic fraction of different HPV types in invasive cervical cancers.