ArticleISRN obstetrics and gynecology2012
HPV Type Distribution and Cervical Cytology among HIV-Positive Tanzanian and South African Women.
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- Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Infection Among Sub-Saharan African Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Racial Disparities Associated with the Prevalence of Vaccine and Non-Vaccine HPV Types and Multiple HPV Infections between Asia and Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2021Pooled it
- Prevalence of high-risk HPV genotypes in sub-Saharan Africa according to HIV status: a 20-year systematic review.Epidemiology and health · 2021Pooled it
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- HPV profiles in Botswana: An analysis of healthy women, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, and invasive cervical cancer.Gynecologic oncology reports · 2025Article
- Determinants of cervical high-risk human papillomavirus positivity among Rwandan women living with human immunodeficiency virus.PloS one · 2025Article
- Prevalence and distribution of selected cervical human papillomavirus types in HIV infected and HIV uninfected women in South Africa, 1989-2021: A narrative review.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2022Review
- Point-of-Care Digital Cytology With Artificial Intelligence for Cervical Cancer Screening in a Resource-Limited Setting.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Acceptability of self- collection for human papillomavirus detection in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.PloS one · 2020Article
- hrHPV prevalence and type distribution in rural Zimbabwe: A community-based self-collection study using near-point-of-care GeneXpert HPV testing.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2019Article
- Molecular Characterization of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus in Women in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.BioMed research international · 2016Article
- A comparison of two visual inspection methods for cervical cancer screening among HIV-infected women in Kenya.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2014Article
- Human papillomavirus prevalence and genotype distribution among HIV-infected women in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2014Article
- Prevalence of HPV High-Risk Genotypes in Three Cohorts of Women in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2013Article
- Association of the vaginal microbiota with human papillomavirus infection in a Korean twin cohort.PloS one · 2013Article
- The Cellient System for Paraffin Histology Can Be Combined with HPV Testing and Morphotyping the Vaginal Microbiome Thanks to BoonFixing.Obstetrics and gynecology international · 2013Article
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Abstract
Background. There are limited data on high-risk human papillomavirus (hr-HPV) genotypes among HIV-positive women in Africa, and little is known about their relationship with cervical cytology in these populations. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional study among 194 HIV-positive women (143 from Tanzania, and 51 from South Africa) to evaluate HPV genotypes among HIV-positive women with normal and abnormal cytology. Cervical samples were genotyped for HPV types, and slides were evaluated for atypical squamous cell changes according to the Bethesda classification system. Results. Prevalence of high grade squamous intraepithelial dysplasia (HSIL) was 9%. Overall, more than half (56%) of women were infected with an hr-HPV type; 94% of women with HSIL (n = 16), 90% of women with LSIL (n = 35), and 42% of women within normal limits (WNL) (n = 58) tested positive for hr-HPV. Overall, the most prevalent hr-HPV subtypes were HPV16 (26%) and HPV52 (30%). Regional differences in the prevalence of HPV18 and HPV35 were found. Conclusion. Regional differences in HPV genotypes among African women warrant the need to consider different monitoring programmes for cervical preneoplasia. HPV-based screening tests for cervical preneoplasia would be highly inefficient unless coupled with cytology screening of the HPV-positive sample, especially in HIV-positive women.
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