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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2004, p. 2212-2215, Vol. 42, No. 5
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2212-2215.2004
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and François Coutlée1,2*
Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal,1 Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal,2 Joint Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University,3 Direction de la Santé Publique de Montréal-Centre, Institut National de la Santé Publique du Québec, Montréal, Québec,4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia,5 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada6
Received 10 November 2003/ Returned for modification 12 January 2004/ Accepted 26 January 2004
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) viral load in cervicovaginal lavage samples collected from 66 human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive women was inversely correlated with blood CD4 count (P = 0.002). HPV-16 viral load was 81-fold higher in women with cervical smears suggestive of high-grade lesions (median, 4,425,883 copies/µg of DNA) than in women with normal smears (median, 54,576), controlling for age (P = 0.006).
Contributing members of The Canadian Women's HIV Study Group are listed in Acknowledgments.
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