Prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus after HPV-vaccination in Denmark.

ABSTRACT: Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has been introduced as a public health initiative in many countries, including Denmark since October 2008. It is important to monitor postimplementation effectiveness of HPV-vaccination at the population-level. We studied HPV-prevalence after first invitation to screening at age 23 years in women offered the quadrivalent HPV-vaccine at the age of 14 years. Randomly selected screening samples from women born in 1994 in four out of five Danish regions were subjected to analysis for HPV in addition to routine cytology. Cobas4800 was used in all participating pathology departments. Data from a Danish prevaccination cross-sectional study using Hybrid Capture 2, and a Danish split-sample study using Cobas4800 were used for comparison. In the period

SUBMITTER: Lynge E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689747 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature