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Cervical Human Papillomavirus Screening among Older Women
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Grainge, Matthew J. Seth, Rashmi Neal, Keith R. Coupland, Carol Vryenhoef, P. Johnson, Jane W. Jenkins, David |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Rates of acquisition and clearance of cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) during a 3-year period in women 51 years of age were compared with rates in younger women to provide data on cervical screening for women >50 years of age. Paired, cytologically negative, archived cervical smears taken 3 years apart from 710 women in Nottingham, United Kingdom, were retrieved and tested for HPV infection with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with GP5+/6+ primers. Seventy-one (21.3%) of 333 women 51 years of age who were HPV negative at baseline were positive 3 years later. This percentage was higher than the corresponding acquisition rates among women 21 (15.2%), 31 (14.1%), and 41 (13.3%) years of age, although these differences were not significant. This retrospective study shows that HPV-negative women >50 years of age can acquire HPV and, therefore, require cervical screening. |
| Starting Page | 1680 |
| Ending Page | 1685 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3201/eid1111.050575 |
| PubMed reference number | 16318718 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/11/pdfs/05-0575.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1111.050575 |
| Journal | Emerging infectious diseases |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
