Objective Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA virus that causes sexually transmitted infection (STI). Recent reports have suggested that HPV may affect sperm parameters and lead to male infertility. This study is aimed to evaluate the correlation between seminal high-risk HPV infection and impairment of sperm quality in Iranian infertile men. MaterialsAndMethods Materials and Method...

results human papillomavirus was found in 62.1% of the samples obtained from the patients. among the hr and lr types, hpv-6 was the major genotype 64.8%. type 16 and 18 were the most frequent hr-hpv types (presented in 26% of the patient), followed by type 50s (24.7%), 45, 30s, and 11 (1.8% from each). multiple hpv infections were presented in 40.7% of the positive genotyping specimens. backgro...

human papilloma virus causes benign and malignant abnormalities in different part of the body. the link between high risk types of hpv and some anogenital and aerodigestive tract cancer is well established. oral hpv infection plays a role in developing oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. we studied the prevalence of oral hpv in healthy individuals and its relative risk factors.saliva samples...

introduction: the human papilloma virus (hpv) can play a role in the development of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (scc). our aim was to assess the prevalence of hpv dna in scc of the larynx. the impact of hpv infection on patient survival was also evaluated.  materials and methods: this case-control study was performed in 44 patients with scc of the larynx (case group), while the contro...

materials and methods twelve natural compounds jaceosidin, withaferin a, curcumin, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (egcg), artemisinin, gingerol, ursolic acid, ferulic acid, berberin, silymarin, resveratrol, and indol-3-carbinol were docked against e6 and e7 oncoproteins of high-risk hpv types 16 and 18 using a protein-ligand docking software called autodock4.2. results out of these 12 natural compo...

Background & Objective: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of genital warts and some anogenital cancers in male and female subjects which is commonly transmitted by sexual contacts. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to examine the prevalence of HPV genotypes in 10,266 Iranian male and female population, according to their age. Meth...

conclusions the results showed remarkable rates of high-risk hpv types (16 and 18) in the studied population, which can be a serious alert for public health. this result highlights the potential impact of prophylactic vaccines for future protection against high-risk hpv types in iranian women. materials and methods this cross-sectional population-based study consisted of two groups of women: no...

  Background and Objective: To estimate the risk of human papilloma virus (HPV) infection for cervical malignancies, we conducted a case-control study in southern Iran (Hormozgan province). Materials and Methods: For this purpose,52 paraffin embedded blocks with exact diagnosis of cervical carcinoma(50 carcinomas and 2 carcinomas in situ) from 2001 to 2006 and 52 praffin embedded blocks of ce...

conclusions it seems that smoking cannot increase the prevalence of high risk hpv 16, 18 in saliva samples. results there were no high-risk types of virus in patients and no significant differences between the groups (p = 1). patients and methods a hundred healthy adult subjects were selected from zahedan dental school for this pilot study. dna was isolated from saliva samples and screened for ...