ArticleJournal of virological methods2013
Agreement for HPV genotyping detection between self-collected specimens on a FTA cartridge and clinician-collected specimens.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Human papillomavirus self-sampling in Asia: a systematic review.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Pooled it
- Concordance of Primary Human Papillomavirus Testing Among Clinicians and Patients: A Systematic Review.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2023Pooled it
- Detecting cervical precancer and reaching underscreened women by using HPV testing on self samples: updated meta-analyses.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Pooled it
- Feasibility and accuracy evaluation of three human papillomavirus assays for FTA card-based sampling: a pilot study in cervical cancer screening.BMC cancer · 2015Trial
- Randomized Comparison of Two Vaginal Self-Sampling Methods for Human Papillomavirus Detection: Dry Swab versus FTA Cartridge.PloS one · 2015Trial
- HPV Testing from Dried Urine Spots as a Tool for Cervical Cancer Screening in Low-Income Countries.BioMed research international · 2015Trial
- Comparison of diagnostic accuracy and acceptability of self-sampling devices for human Papillomavirus detection: A systematic review.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Review
- Current Status and Future Perspectives of Molecular Prevention Strategies for Cervical Cancers.Indian journal of surgical oncology · 2020Review
- An evaluation of solid versus liquid transport media for high-risk HPV detection and cervical cancer screening on self-collected specimens.Infectious agents and cancer · 2020Article
- Acceptability of self- collection for human papillomavirus detection in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.PloS one · 2020Article
- Prevention of Cervical Cancer: Guideline of the DGGG and the DKG (S3 Level, AWMF Register Number 015/027OL, December 2017) - Part 2 on Triage, Treatment and Follow-up.Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2019Article
- Intricacies of assessing the human microbiome in epidemiologic studies.Annals of epidemiology · 2016Review
- An Evaluation of the Cobas4800 HPV Test on Cervico-Vaginal Specimens in Liquid versus Solid Transport Media.PloS one · 2016Article
- Molecular oncology testing in resource-limited settings.The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD · 2014Review
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Abstract
The current method of transporting self-collected cervicovaginal specimen for HPV DNA testing relies on liquid based medium, which is challenging and expensive to transport. A novel, dry storage and transportation device, Whatman indicating FTA™ Elute Cartridge, avoids some of the pitfalls of liquid-based medium. This method has been shown to be comparable to liquid-based collection medium, but relative performance of self-collected (SC) and clinician-collected (CC) samples onto FTA cards has not been reported. The objective of this study is to compare the analytic performance of self- and clinician-collected samples onto FTA cartridges for the detection of carcinogenic HPV using Linear Array. There was a 91% agreement, 69% positive agreement, and kappa of 0.75 between the clinician-collected and self-collected specimens for detection of any carcinogenic HPV genotype. When the HPV results were categorized hierarchically according to cervical cancer risk, there was no difference in the distribution of the HPV results for the clinician- and self-collected specimens (p=0.7). This study concludes that FTA elute cartridge is a promising method of specimen transport for cervical cancer screening programs considering using self-collected specimen and HPV testing. Larger studies with clinical endpoints are now needed to assess the clinical performance.
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