Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(8):653-654; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk136
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Sichero, L.
Right arrow Articles by Villa, L. L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Sichero, L.
Right arrow Articles by Villa, L. L.
Related Collections
Right arrowRelated Article in JNCI
Right arrowResponse to this Correspondence
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

CORRESPONDENCE

Re: Human Papillomavirus Type 16 and 18 Variants: Race-Related Distribution and Persistence

Laura Sichero, Helen Trottier, Silvaneide Ferreira, Eliane Duarte-Franco, Eduardo L. Franco, Luisa Lina Villa

Affiliations of authors: Department of Virology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, São Paulo, Brazil (LS, SF, LLV); Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (LS); Division of Cancer Epidemiology (HT, ELF) and Department of Family Medicine (EDF), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Correspondence to: Luisa Lina Villa, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, R Prof Antonio Prudente 109, 4th Floor, 01509-010 São Paulo, SP, Brazil (e-mail: llvilla@ludwig.org.br).

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Non-European variants of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) 16 and 18 are associated with increased risk of developing preinvasive cervical lesions (1). In a recent article in this Journal, Xi et al. (2) showed that European and African variants of HPVs 16 and 18 were predominantly detected in white and African American women, respectively. Most importantly, they showed that infections with these variants . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?

Related Article in JNCI

Human Papillomavirus Type 16 and 18 Variants: Race-Related Distribution and Persistence
Long Fu Xi, Nancy B. Kiviat, Allan Hildesheim, Denise A. Galloway, Cosette M. Wheeler, Jesse Ho, and Laura A. Koutsky
J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 98: 1045-1052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Response to this Correspondence

Response: Re: Human Papillomavirus Type 16 and 18 Variants: Race-Related Distribution and Persistence
Long Fu Xi and Laura A. Koutsky
J Natl Cancer Inst 2007 99: 654-655. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]