Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Human Papillomavirus Infection among 12,076 Iranian Women

Cervical cancer (CC) is the third leading cause of cancer among women worldwide, and also is the 16th cause of female cancer among Iranian people (Taebi et al., 2019). Approximately, 570,000 new cases and 310,000 deaths of CC have been estimated annually around the world (Wang et al., 2019). Viral infections, especially human papillomavirus infection (HPV) which is recognized as one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide, are now one of the known risk factors for CC (Nishimura et al., 2021), i.e., CC is by far the most frequent HPV-related disease (Xing et al., 2021).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - August 2, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Fatemeh Bitarafan, Mohammad Reza Hekmat, Mehrnoosh Khodaiean, Ehsan Razmara, Tahereh Ashrafganjoei, Mitra Modares Gilani, Mitra Mohit, Soheila Aminimoghaddam, Fatemeh Cheraghi, Raziyeh Khalesi, Parnian Rajabzadeh, Soheila Sarmadi, Masoud Garshasbi Source Type: research