Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021
Research
Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection in Children during the First 6 Years of Life, Finland
Table 2
Duration of genotype and species-specific persistence of oral HPV infection in children*
HPV genotypes/clades |
No. |
Mean persistence, mo (range) |
HPV6 | 2 | 19.7 (1.8–37.5) |
HPV16 | 36 | 19.8 (0.1–82) |
HPV18 | 3 | 11.8 (5.0–18.6) |
HPV31 | 1 | 92.2 (92.2) |
HPV33 | 3 | 14.2 (1.0–40.6) |
HPV39 | 1 | 89.0 (89.0) |
HPV58 | 1 | 88.7 (88.7) |
Multiple-type infections (>2) | 20 | 14.2 (1.0–91.0) |
Clade A7: HPV18, 39, 45, 59, 68, 70, 85 | 4 | 31.2 (5.0–89.0) |
Clade A9: HPV16, 31, 33, 35, 52, 58 | 41 | 22.8 (0.1–92.2) |
Clade A10: HPV6, 11, 13, 44, 55, 74 | 2 | 19.7 (1.8–37.7) |
*Persistence is defined as having >2 consecutive visit HPV-positive results for the same HPV genotype or clade. HPV, human papillomavirus.
1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.