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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2010

Evaluation of transported dry and wet cervical exfoliated samples for detection of human papillomavirus infection.

Qinghua Feng, Stephen Cherne, Rachel L Winer, Viorica Popov, Hector Zambrano, Carlos Yerovi, Stephen E Hawes, Laura A Koutsky, Nancy B Kiviat

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Qinghua FengDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, 815 Mercer St., UW Medicine Box 358050, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. qf@u.washington.edu
Stephen Cherne
Rachel L Winer
Viorica Popov
Hector Zambrano
Carlos Yerovi
Stephen E Hawes
Laura A Koutsky
Nancy B Kiviat
University of Washington · USUniversisdad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil · ECYale University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We determined the feasibility of human papillomavirus (HPV) detection in cervical exfoliated cells collected as dry swab samples. Both dry cervical swab and specimen transport medium (STM) cervical swab samples were collected from 135 patients attending either colposcopy or women's clinics in Guayaquil, Ecuador, who had a cytology diagnosis within 6 months. HPV was detected by dot blot hybridization and genotyped by the liquid bead microarray assay (LBMA). Overall, 23.1% of dry samples were positive for any high-risk HPV types, and 24.6% of STM samples were positive for any high-risk HPV types. Of 125 paired samples, the type-specific high-risk HPV proportion positive agreement was 60.7% (kappa, 0.69; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.53 to 0.82). Of six women with cytological evidence of invasive cervical cancer, high-risk HPV DNA was detected in three of their STM samples and in five of their dry samples. Dry samples were more likely to be insufficient for HPV testing than STM samples. Consistent with this observation, the amount of genomic DNA quantitated with the beta-actin gene was almost 20 times lower in dry samples than in STM samples when detected by the real-time TaqMan assay; however, HPV DNA viral loads in dry samples were only 1.6 times lower than those in matched STM samples. We concluded that exfoliated cervical cells could be collected as dry swab samples for HPV detection.

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DesiccationAdultCervix UteriDNA, ViralEcuadorFemaleHumansMiddle AgedMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesPapillomaviridaePapillomavirus InfectionsSensitivity and SpecificitySpecimen HandlingVirologyDNA, Viral

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PMID20610686
PMCPMC2937663
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