Prevalence of vaginal and cervical HPV infection among 35-year age cohort ever-married women in Kalutara district of Sri Lanka and the validity of vaginal HPV/DNA specimen as a cervical cancer screening tool: a cross-sectional study
Vaginal HPV/DNA specimen screening method can be used as a cervical cancer screening tool due to its high validity. Pilots of the feasibility should be set up before the regional or national rollout of vaginal sampling strategies.
Authors
- KN Mapitigama
- HTCS Abeysena
- KCM Perera
Institutions
- University of Kelaniya (LK)
- Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine (LK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-10150-4
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.77
Funders
- University of Colombo