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Papillomaviruses and HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer and other HPV-associated diseases

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Lowy, Doug, author
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Audio-visual presentation : Cervical cancer is attributable to multiple HPV types; HPV16 predominates ; Cervical cancer: time line of cervical HPV infections, progression and natural history ; Key ...

Audio-visual presentation : Cervical cancer is attributable to multiple HPV types; HPV16 predominates ; Cervical cancer: time line of cervical HPV infections, progression and natural history ; Key features of HPV pathogenesis ; Challenges to development of a preventive HPV vaccine ; A prophylactic vaccine ; Formation of papillomavirus virions ; Two distinct HPV VLP vaccines are under commercial development ; Partial crossprotection against incident infection by other high risk HPV types ; Overall efficacy in preventing HPV cervical disease attributable to incident infection ; HPV life cycle ; How could IM injection of a VLP vaccine prevent mucosal or cutaneous infection at the cervix? ; Outstanding medical issues ; Regulatory status of HPV VLP vaccines ; Pap smear screening without vaccination would prevent more cervical cancer deaths than HPV16/18 vaccination without pap screening ; Limitations of current VLP vaccines.

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