Aims: To assess the frequency and the main HPV genotypes circulating among a group of women attending\nat a third level Hospital in Mexico City. Methods: A cross-sectional and descriptive study was\nperformed in a group of 143 female outpatients of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service at the National\nInstitute of Perinatology of Mexico. Cervical swabs were taken from participants and subjected to simultaneous\ndetection/genotyping of HPV by Linear Array Genotyping Test (Roche Molecular Systems).\nMann-Whitney U, median and/or Square Chi tests were used to compare socio-demographical features\nbetween HPV-infected and uninfected women. Results: A total of 66 women (46.2%) had HPV infection.\nOverall, 112 genotypes were detected either as single infections (45.5%) or multiple genotype infections\n(54.5%). The cumulated frequency of multiple infections with high-/low- and high-/high-risk HPV\ngenotypes was 63.9 %. The most frequent high-risk genotypes were HPV52 HPV58 and HPV51, whereas\nthe most frequent low-risk genotypes were HPV6, HPV53 and HPV84. Infected women were significantly\nyounger and have less stable partner relationships than uninfected women (p < 0.05). Conclusion: A\nrelevant frequency of mixed infections with high- and low-risk HPV genotypes, other than those consi-dered most prevalent worldwide, was observed. Most circulating high-risk genotypes among the women\nof this study are not covered by commercial vaccine formulations.
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