Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2014)

Resolution of Novel Human Papillomavirus–induced Warts after HPV Vaccination

  • Steffi Silling,
  • Ulrike Wieland,
  • Marko Werner,
  • Herbert Pfister,
  • Anja Potthoff,
  • Alexander Kreuter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2001.130999
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 1
pp. 142 – 145

Abstract

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Human papillomavirus (HPV) XS2 was isolated from warts on an immunosuppressed patient. After HPV vaccination, the warts resolved. HPVXS2 was also found in warts and normal skin of HIV-positive patients and rarely in HIV-negative controls. Further studies should elucidate the mechanisms that lead to wart clearance.

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