Persistent Human Papillomavirus Infection

Persistent infection with oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types is responsible for ~5% of human cancers. The HPV infectious cycle can sustain long-term infection in stratified epithelia because viral DNA is maintained as low copy number extrachromosomal plasmids in the dividing basal cells of a...

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Main Authors: Ashley N. Della Fera, Alix Warburton, Tami L. Coursey, Simran Khurana, Alison A. McBride
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Viruses
Subjects:
HPV
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/2/321