Epidemiology of oral HPV in the oral mucosa in women without signs of oral disease from Yucatan, Mexico

High-risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) are considered necessary for the development of cervical cancer. Furthermore, there is no doubt that some types of oral squamous cell carcinoma are associated with HR-HPV. The epidemiology of oral HPV infections in healthy subjects remains unclear due to a l...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: María del Refugio Gonzalez-Losa, Ernesto Soria Barrera, Verónica Herrera-Pech, Laura Conde-Ferráez, Marylin Puerto-Solís, Guadalupe Ayora-Talavera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2015-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822015000100301&lng=en&tlng=en