title: Underwear: contamination by human papillomaviruses.
abstract: Genital human papillomavirus-related lesions occurring in 74 patients and cellular swab samples taken from their underwear were analyzed with a filter hybridization technique (ViraPap-ViraType, Life Technologies Inc., Gaithersburg, Md.) for human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid. Human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid was found in 54 of 74 (72%) lesional tissues and 13 of 74 (17%) swabs from the underwear. Recurrence rates in patients with and without positive underwear swabs were 61% and 29% (p less than 0.05), respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bergeron
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferenczy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Richart
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003020:Clothing; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012008:Recurrence; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral