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Abstract
Background: To study the prevalence of HPV in Sanming, China before conducting large-scale HPV vaccination is important to guide public health preventive measures and maximize the effectiveness of vaccination.
Objective: Provide an overall understanding of the prevalence of HPV in Sanming to help guide HPV screening and vaccine selection in the future.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of 11,886 female patients who underwent cervical screening was performed. We analyzed the overall HPV prevalence in the region, the prevalence based on each age group and different genotypes and the distribution of HPV with different pathological diagnoses.
Results: The overall HPV prevalence was 17.85%, with peak positivity in the ≤ 20-year group (42.24%) and secondary elevation in 61-70-year-olds (31.90%). HPV52 (23.37%), HPV58 (14.00%), and HPV16 (11.40%) constituted the dominant genotypes. Among 2,122 HPV-positive patients, pathological diagnoses included: chronic cervicitis (83.22%, 1,766/2,122; predominantly HPV52 [22.88%]), low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL, 11.50%, 244/2,122; HPV52 [29.92%]), high-grade SIL (HSIL, 3.49%, 74/2,122; HPV16 [40.54%]), and cervical cancer (1.79%, 38/2,122; HPV16 [52.63%]). Notably, HPV16 prevalence increased significantly with lesion severity.
Conclusion: This study found that the overall HPV infection rate in Sanming, China, was slightly higher than in other regions of the country, and the main prevalent genotypes were HPV52 and HPV58. In order to maximize patient benefit, vaccine selection should ideally cover other common genotypes in the region, in addition to HPV16 and HPV18.
期刊介绍:
Infectious Agents and Cancer is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of basic, clinical, epidemiological and translational research providing an insight into the association between chronic infections and cancer.
The journal welcomes submissions in the pathogen-related cancer areas and other related topics, in particular:
• HPV and anogenital cancers, as well as head and neck cancers;
• EBV and Burkitt lymphoma;
• HCV/HBV and hepatocellular carcinoma as well as lymphoproliferative diseases;
• HHV8 and Kaposi sarcoma;
• HTLV and leukemia;
• Cancers in Low- and Middle-income countries.
The link between infection and cancer has become well established over the past 50 years, and infection-associated cancer contribute up to 16% of cancers in developed countries and 33% in less developed countries.
Preventive vaccines have been developed for only two cancer-causing viruses, highlighting both the opportunity to prevent infection-associated cancers by vaccination and the gaps that remain before vaccines can be developed for other cancer-causing agents. These gaps are due to incomplete understanding of the basic biology, natural history, epidemiology of many of the pathogens that cause cancer, the mechanisms they exploit to cause cancer, and how to interrupt progression to cancer in human populations. Early diagnosis or identification of lesions at high risk of progression represent the current most critical research area of the field supported by recent advances in genomics and proteomics technologies.