Mums Not Having Chemo By Laura Bond February 21, 2012 Would you give a healthy teen an STD vaccine containing genetically modified DNA andaluminium? That’s exactly what girls are given when they get the Gardasil shot. I’m going off-piste this week to talk about the HPV(Human Papillomavirus) vaccine. There is so much misinformation being spread about this […]
Detection of HPV 16 and 18 DNA in the blood of patients with cervical cancer
Kay P, Allan B, Denny L, Hoffman M, Williamson AL. Source: Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. Abstract: Persistent infection of the uterine cervix with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) is causally associated with cancer of the cervix. A few studies have reported the presence of […]
Cross-Neutralization Potential of Native Human Papillomavirus N-Terminal L2 Epitopes
Michael J. Conway, Linda Cruz, Samina Alam, Neil David Christensen, Craig Meyers Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) capsids are composed of 72 pentamers of the major capsid protein L1, and an unknown number of L2 minor capsid proteins. An N-terminal “external loop” of L2 contains cross-neutralizing epitopes, and native HPV16 virions extracted from 20-day-old organotypic tissues […]