Underwear: contamination by human papillomaviruses.
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.
Bergeron
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Department of Pathology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ferenczy
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Richart
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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
D004279:DNA, Viral