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ArticleThe open virology journal2012

Evidence and impact of human papillomavirus latency.

Patti E Gravitt

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Article in The open virology journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  17. HPV and the Risk of HIV Acquisition in Women.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Patti E GravittPerdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Jalan MAEPS Perdana, Serdang, Selangor MY 43400, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Funding

HPV Infection Among Perimenopausal Women in the 1945-64 Birth CohorR01CA123467 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GRAVITT, PATTI E · 2007 to 2012
$3.1M
HPV persistence: An overlooked consequence of helminth infection?R21CA156537 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GRAVITT, PATTI E · 2011 to 2012
$340k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA123467NCI NIH HHS R21 CA156537
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At present, there is no consensus in the scientific community regarding the ability for human papillomavirus (HPV) infections to establish latency. Based on animal studies, a model of papillomavirus latency has been proposed in which papillomaviruses can be retained in the basal epithelial stem cell pool as latent infections and periodically induced to reactivate when the stem cell divides and one daughter cell is committed to terminal differentiation and induction of the viral life cycle. Tissue resident memory T-cells are hypothesized to control these periodic reactivation episodes and thus limit their duration. In this paper, evidence from human studies consistent with this model of papillomavirus latency is reviewed. Given the strong circumstantial evidence supporting a natural history of HPV infection which includes a immunologically controlled latent state, the longer term implications of HPV latency on a highly infected and aging population may warrant a more serious evaluation.

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cervical cancer.HPVlatencyPapillomavirusreactivation

Identifiers

PMID23341855
PMCPMC3547385

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