BACKGROUND Condyloma acuminata are soft, skin colored, fleshy warts that are caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The disease is highly contagious, can appear singly or in groups, small or large. The incubation period may be from 1-6 months. Although anogenital warts are considered to be sexually transmitted in adults, this may not be the case for children. Genital warts in children may r...

Background In contrast to adults, only limited data are available on the human papillomavirus (HPV)-type spectrum in anogenital warts (AGW) of children. Objective This study aimed evaluate HPV-type AGW prepubertal Materials & methods a retrospective German multicentre study, HPV genotyping was performed biopsies 55 1- 12-year-old children using group-specific PCRs followed by hybridization with...

Anogenital warts represent a major therapeutic problem in genitourinary medicine. A wide range of treatment modalities is available (the usual indication that none is ideal). This therapeutic problem is not new; in the sixth century, Dionysius graphically described treatment of genital warts: "The surgeons spared neither iron nor fire, and were not moved to pity by the cries of the patients". B...

Due to the high prevalence of anogenital warts, their significant economic and psychosocial burden, lack routine vaccination against papillomavirus infection, monitoring epidemiological situation for one common forms infection – warts is relevant. The aim assess in Tatarstan Republic 2011–2020. Materials methods. study design an observational descriptive study. A retrospective analysis incidenc...

Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) were detected in 69 (43.7%) of 158 and in 7 (4.5%) of 155 anogenital hairs obtained from 53 patients with genital warts (GWs) and from 53 age-matched healthy control subjects, respectively. At least 1 hair sample was positive for 69.8% of patients and for 13.2% of control subjects. For patients, HPV was detected in 64.2%, 39.6%, and 26.9% of hairs plucked from the ...

BACKGROUND Anogenital warts (AGW) are caused by the most common sexually transmitted infection, human papillomavirus. The objective of this study was to examine AGW incidence from 1990 to 2011 by sex, age, income quintile, and residential area category (urban/rural). The study period included the initiation of school-based HPV vaccination for girls in the sixth grade, which began in 2008. The d...