HPV infection can be identified in self-collected vaginal swabs

(American Society for Microbiology) High risk, potentially cancer causing human papillomavirus infections are common among women in Papua New Guinea. But self sampling with vaginal swabs may provide materials that screen as accurately as the more labor-intensive approach using cervical samples obtained by clinicians. This finding is critical to developing same day screening and treatment, which is key to ensuring that women with precancerous lesions are treated in this largely unconnected (electronically) country, and in others like it.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news