Multiple Human Papillomavirus Infections in the Development of CIN

Multiple infections of high-risk genotypes of Human Papillomavirus (HR-HPV) in patients with abnormal cervical cytological or histological findings are detectable in a percentage ranging from 20% to 50% of cases. Some studies have detected a certain tendency to specific clustering in multiple infections, both inter-species and inter-genotypic, such as HPV 31-35-56, HPV 16-51-52, HPV 16-18, HPV 51-52. Furthermore, a greater tendency of the HPV16 genotype to cluster with genotypes of different species is reported in the literature. However, other studies claim a random character of such genotypic associations in multiple infections. This heterogeneity of results of the studies present in the literature underlies multiple factors, both epidemiological and methodological, implicated in the high variability of prevalence and diagnostic findings of multiple infections. In particular, with regard to epidemiological characteristics, factors influencing the distribution of multiple infections appear to be the origin and type of population, economic-social status, young age, HIV seropositivity and recent sexual activity. A further hypothesized element is represented by a possible individual susceptibility dictated by the immune profile of the host towards specific genotypes, potentially facilitating the occurrence of co-infections by these, possibly resulting in a synergistic effect on the oncogenic potential. From a clinical point of view, to date multiple cross-sectional studies sug…

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