title: Oral human papillomavirus prevalence in high school students of one municipality in Sweden.
abstract: The rise in human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has been suggested to be responsible for the increased incidence of oropharyngeal cancer in the Western world. This has boosted interest in oral HPV prevalence and whether HPV vaccines can prevent oral HPV infection. In a previous study we showed oral HPV prevalence to be almost 10% in youth aged 15-23 y attending a youth clinic in Stockholm, Sweden. However, this may not be a generalizable sample within the Swedish population. Therefore, mouthwashes were used to investigate oral HPV prevalence in 335 Swedish high school students aged 17-21 y (median age 18 y), from 1 municipality with 140,000 inhabitants. The presence of HPV DNA in the oral samples, as examined by a Luminex-based assay, was significantly lower in this cohort, only 1.8% (3.1% in females and 0.6% in males), as compared to our previous study.
authors: From the Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm.
authors: Cecilia
authors: C
authors: Nordfors
authors: Nathalie
authors: N
authors: Grün
authors: Linnea
authors: L
authors: Haeggblom
authors: Nikolaos
authors: N
authors: Tertipis
authors: Lars
authors: L
authors: Sivars
authors: Magdalena
authors: M
authors: Mattebo
authors: Margareta
authors: M
authors: Larsson
authors: Elisabeth
authors: E
authors: Häggström-Nordin
authors: Tanja
authors: T
authors: Tydén
authors: Torbjörn
authors: T
authors: Ramqvist
authors: Tina
authors: T
authors: Dalianis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009055:Mouth / Q000821:virology*; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D015995:Prevalence; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral