Exploring the prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in PAP smear samples of women in northern region of United Arab Emirates (UAE): HPV Direct Flow CHIP system-based pilot study.
Heba Issa OdehSara Rashid Al-BadiBasma KarimaTakrim Abdulwali SaeedNazeerullah RahamathullahEman Hassan IbrahimMay Khalil IsmailZahra Arshad KhanPublished in: PloS one (2023)
The genotypes 6, 45, 16, 11, 67, 62/81 were the most common HPV infections in the women between the age group of 21 and 59-years-old. A moderate increase of HPV45, 62/81 and much less prevalence of HPV18 were detected in the study population. 43.27% of the normal epithelia were positive to different low and high-risk HPV genotypes. This finding highlights the importance of molecular genotyping of HPV to emphasize the cervical screening triage.