title: Four historic legends in human papillomaviruses research.
abstract: Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) infection and HPVs-associated lesions, including skin warts in children and adults and cervical neoplasia in women, have been excessively studied since ancient years. In our article, we present briefly four major researchers from the HPVs pre-vaccination historic period: Hippokrates the Asclepiad, Domenico Antonio Rigoni-Stern, George N. Papanicolaou and Harald zur Hausen.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Virology, University of Crete School of Medicine, Greece.
authors.forename: Ioannis N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Mammas
authors.forename: Demetrios A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Spandidos
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000266:history*; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines