Prevalence of human papillomavirus genotypes in women of different ethnicity from rural northwestern Ecuador

• Main Authors: Rosa de los Ángeles Bayas-Rea (Author), Karina Ponce (Author), Andrea Guenther (Author), Juan D. Mosquera (Author), Carolina Armijos (Author), Lorena Mejía (Author), Gabriela Bustamante (Author), Sonia Zapata (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In Ecuador, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in women. Although HPV represents a serious public health problem worldwide, the information about its prevalence and genotypes in remote communities o...