Detection Of Hpv-Dna In Cervical And Urethral Scrapings Using Hybrid Capture 2 And Nested-Pcr And Their Correlation With Cytomorphology

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2010-05
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Othman, Norodiyah
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a causative agent for development of cervical cancer. This study aims to detect the presence of HPV in routine pap smears of women who attended Hospital Kota Bharu, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia and Hospital Kuala Terengganu. The cervical sample from each woman was in two forms (split sampling); conventional smear (CP) and ThinPrep® smear (TP). These women were given a questionnaire to determine the risk factors for cervical cancer development. The male spouses were invited to provide urethral scrapings for HPV studies. The cervical and urethral samples were subjected to Hybrid Capture 2 and nested-PCR. HPV results of the cervical scrapings were correlated with cytological diagnosis from CP and TP. A total of 705 cervical scrapings and 99 male urethral scrapings were collected. 702 cervical samples were available for both CP and TP cytological evaluation. By CP, 92.7% of the collected cervical scrapings had normal smear, 2.0% had abnormal smear and 5.3% smears were unsatisfactory for evaluation. By TP, 87.1% was normal, 1.7% was abnormal and 11.1% was unsatisfactory for evaluation. The diagnoses of the conventional Pap smears and ThinPrep® Pap smears were 88.9% in agreement. The adequacy of sampling by TP (88.9%) is comparable to CP (94.7%). 635 cervical samples were sufficient for HPV testing. 44 (6.9%) samples were positive for HPV; 27 by HR-HC2 and 28 by nested-PCR. The latter is more sensitive to detect HPV; 72.7% of sensitivity compared to HR-HC2; 36.4% sensitivity while the specificity is fairly similar; 96.8% and 96.3%. HPV detection improved when cytological diagnosis from ThinPrep® smear (TP) was used as gold standard. The genotypes of the 21/28 (75.0%) nested-PCR HPV positive samples were; HPV-16 (57.1%), HPV-58 (19.0%), HPV-6 (9.5%) and HPV-18, -33 and -61 (4.8%).
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Detect the presence of HPV in routine pap smears , of women who attended Hospital Kota Bharu
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