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Human Papilloma Virus Infection and Vaginal Microbiome Profiles in Pre-menopausal Women: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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backgroundCervical cancer is a common cancer among women worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) largely drives the development of cervical cancer. While MATERIAL AND
methodsVaginal swabs were collected from pre-menopausal women with clinically suspected HPV infection and healthy controls. Samples underwent HR-HPV detection using the Truenat® HPV-HR RT-PCR (real-time polymerase chain reaction) assay (Molbio Diagnostics Limited, Goa, India). Vaginal microbiome profiling was performed using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing on the GridION platform (Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc, Oxford, United Kingdom). Taxonomic classification was carried out using the EPI2ME 16S workflow with Kraken2 (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States), and CSTs were assigned using the VALENCIA (VAginaL community state typE Nearest CentroId clAssifier) algorithm. Statistical analyses and microbial community comparisons were performed using MicrobiomeAnalyst (Xia Lab, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada).
resultsA total of 86 clinically suspected HPV cases and 63 healthy pre-menopausal controls were enrolled. Overall, high-risk HPV (HPV 16/31 and HPV-18/45) was detected in 11.6% (10/86) of cases, with no positivity in the control group. Vaginal microbiome profiling revealed significantly higher alpha diversity in women with inflammatory cytology compared to healthy controls, and increased Shannon and Simpson diversity indices in HPV-positive and inflammatory groups. Beta diversity analysis showed distinct microbial clustering between all groups. Taxonomic analysis demonstrated a predominance of
conclusionThese findings underscore the importance of vaginal microbiome composition in cervical health and support further investigation into microbial biomarkers for early detection and targeted interventions in HPV-associated disease.
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