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Type-specific incidence, clearance and predictors of cervical human papillomavirus infections (HPV) among young women: a prospective study in Uganda

Cecily Banura1,2, Sven Sandin2, Leen-Jan van Doorn3, Wim Quint3, Bernhard Kleter3, Fred Wabwire-Mangen4, Edward K Mbidde5 and Elisabete Weiderpass2,6,7,8*

Author Affiliations

1 College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda

2 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

3 DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, Voorburg, the Netherlands

4 School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

5 Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

6 Department of Etiological Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway

7 Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway

8 Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Samfundet Folkhalsan, Helsinki, Finland

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Infectious Agents and Cancer 2010, 5:7 doi:10.1186/1750-9378-5-7

Published: 9 April 2010

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Table S1 - HPV incidence and clearance among HIV positive and HIV negative women, Kampala, Uganda. original data used to perform analysis of clearance by HPV type.

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