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Date publication

mars 2010

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr GRAESSLIN Olivier


Tous les auteurs :
Gavillon N, Vervaet H, Derniaux E, Terrosi P, Graesslin O, Quereux C

Résumé

More than 120 genotypes have been identified among the Papillomavirus (HPV) family. These viruses are ubiquitary with skin or mucous membrane tropism and cause various pathologies from wart to neoplasia. HPV family is classified according to their tropism. Genital HPV infection is considered as the most frequent sexually transmitted disease in the world. Seventy-five percent of women will be in contact with HPV at least one time in their life. HPV is usually transmitted through direct skin-to-skin contact, more often during penetrative genital contact. Other types of genital contact in the absence of penetration can lead to HPV infection, but those routes of transmission are much less common than sexual intercourse. However, virgins (

Référence

Gynecol Obstet Fertil. 2010 Mar;38(3):199-204