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The human papillomaviruses (HPV) represent a heterogeneous group of agents, each of which is associated with specific epithelial proliferations (Table 1) [1]. Whereas most of these lesions are usually typical benign warts, others clearly represent premalignant tumors or bear the potential for conversion into malignant growth. As shown in Table 1, the carcinomas themselves harbor only particular types of HPV. Therefore virus-typing might be of diagnostic value in evaluating the risk of a given lesion to develop into a malignant tumor.
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Gissmann, L., Schneider, A. (1985). Diagnosis of Papillomavirus Infection by Nucleic Acid Hybridization. In: Habermehl, KO. (eds) Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology and Immunology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69943-6_7
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