{"id":199068,"date":"2015-08-13T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=199068"},"modified":"2015-10-06T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T17:28:24","slug":"hpv-in-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/hpv-in-students\/","title":{"rendered":"HPV in students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_193573\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193573\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tecnociencia_Tecno_Papilloma_virus_hpv-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"HPV: 200 known varieties, many harmless, some carcinogenic\" width=\"290\" height=\"387\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">wikimedia commons<\/span>HPV: 200 known varieties, many harmless, some carcinogenic<span class=\"media-credits\">wikimedia commons<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>University students in the city of Bel\u00e9m, state of Par\u00e1, exhibit a high prevalence of infection by the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a survey conducted by researchers from the federal universities of Par\u00e1 and Sergipe, and the Evandro Chagas Institute.\u00a0 In analyzing the samples, the researchers found varieties of HPV that carry a high risk of causing cervical cancer and are not eliminated by vaccines currently in use \u2013 which specifically target HPV types 16 and 18 that have a high potential for producing tumors, as well as types 6 and 11, associated with the formation of genital warts.\u00a0 According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, 13 varieties of HPV are classified as having a \u201chigh risk\u201d of causing cancer.\u00a0 The researchers analyzed cells sampled from the outer layer of the uterine cervix of 265 non-smoking young women, 25 years old on average, and identified segments of HPV DNA in 67 of them, a prevalence of 25.3% (<em><i>Infectious Agents and Cancer<\/i><\/em>, July 22, 2015).\u00a0 HPV is known to be the main causal agent of genital warts and cervical cancer, the third most common type of malignant tumor in women, after breast and colorectal cancers.\u00a0 There are at least 200 known varieties of the virus.\u00a0 In the study, the researchers identified 20 of these varieties, including 16 and 18, which are associated with 70% of all cases of cervical cancer.\u00a0 Only 50% of infected women and 10% of infected men produce specific antibodies against HPV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Study exhibit a high prevalence of infection by the virus in students","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[229,242],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-199068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-epidemiology","tag-immunology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199068"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=199068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}