papillomavirus
Americannoun
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papillomaviruses
plural
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Origin of papillomavirus
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A few oncologists suggested those might be caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV, just as cervical and some other cancers are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Cervical screening involves testing for HPV, human papillomavirus.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
That makes it a bigger risk factor than exposure to UV radiation, poor diet, and infections from pathogens like hepatitis and the human papillomavirus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2025
The human papillomavirus, or HPV, causes nearly all cases of cervical cancer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
He also challenged Gardasil, the vaccine that protects against human papillomavirus and is credited with slashing rates of cervical cancer in young women.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 26, 2024
"Herpesviruses and papillomaviruses are probably best known examples. Other viruses in the healthy virome apparently can protect the host from infection by their more aggressive relatives."
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
For instance, Cervarix is an FDA-approved bivalent vaccine that provides protection against two different types of human papillomaviruses that cause cancer.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 2, 2022
Nearly all cases of cervical cancer are caused by human papillomaviruses - known as HPV.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2022
But that’s not useful, since 85 percent of the population catches at least one of the 100 different human papillomaviruses that circulate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2013
Although he cautions that human papillomaviruses may not necessarily behave the same way, “for the moment we assume that they do”.
From Nature ● Aug. 29, 2012
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