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- Title
Low Prevalence of Oral and Nasal Human Papillomavirus in Employees Performing CO<sub>2</sub>-laser Evaporation of Genital Warts or Loop Electrode Excision Procedure of Cervical Dysplasia.
- Authors
KOFOED, Kristian; NORRBOM, Christina; FORSLUND, Ola; MØLLER, Charlotte; FRØDING, Ligita P.; PEDERSEN, Anders Elm; MARKAUSKAS, Algirdas; BLOMBERG, Maria; BAUMGARTNER-NIELSEN, Jane; Torp MADSEN, Jakob; STRAUSS, Gitte; MADSEN, Klaus G.; SAND, Carsten
- Abstract
Risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) transmission during laser vaporisation of genital warts or loop electrode excision procedure is controversial. An oral rinse, a nasal swabs, history of HPV-related diseases and data on HPV exposure were collected from 287 employees at departments of dermato-venerology and gynaecology in Denmark. A mucosal HPV type was found among 5.8% of employees with experience of laser treatment of genital warts as compared to 1.7% of those with no experience (p = 0.12). HPV prevalence was not higher in employees participating in electrosurgical treatment or cryotherapy of genital warts, or loop electrode excision procedure compared with those who did not. HPV 6 or 11 were not detected in any samples. Hand warts after the age of 24 years was more common among dermatology than among non-dermatology personnel (18% vs. 8.0%, p = 0.03). Mucosal HPV types are infrequent in the oral and nasal cavity of health care personnel, however, employees at departments of dermato-venereology are at risk of acquiring hand warts.
- Subjects
TRANSMISSION of papillomavirus diseases; GENITAL warts; LASER surgery; ELECTROSURGERY; COLD therapy; SURGERY
- Publication
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2015, Vol 95, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
0001-5555
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2340/00015555-1912