Monitoring of female human papillomavirus carriers with background and precancer diseases of the cervix uteri

Abstract

In women with background diseases of the cervix uteri, human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 infection was found in 26.9% of cases, while in those with varying cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, it was in 68.5% of cases, i.e. 2.5 times higher, mainly at the age of 25 to 30 years. Polymerase chain reaction serum assays for HPV infection were negative in 99.9% of cases.After diathermoelectronization of the cervix uteri, HPV was identified in 28.6% of the female virus carriers with background diseases and in 49.9% of the women with varying dysplasia, i.e. half the female virus carriers in this group continued to have the earlier iden- tified HPV types 16 and 18.

Keywords

• human papillomavirus
• cancer of the cervix uteri
• screening for cancer of the cervix uteri
• erosion of the cervix uteri