1. [Latent cervical virus infection as a possible cause of early abortion].
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Manavi M, Czerwenka KF, Schurz B, Knogler W, Kubista E, and Reinold E
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- Adult, Cytomegalovirus isolation & purification, Cytomegalovirus Infections diagnosis, Cytomegalovirus Infections microbiology, DNA, Viral isolation & purification, Female, Herpes Genitalis diagnosis, Herpes Genitalis microbiology, Humans, Papillomaviridae isolation & purification, Pregnancy, Simplexvirus isolation & purification, Slow Virus Diseases diagnosis, Trophoblasts microbiology, Tumor Virus Infections diagnosis, Tumor Virus Infections microbiology, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms diagnosis, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms microbiology, Uterine Cervicitis diagnosis, Abortion, Spontaneous microbiology, Cervix Uteri microbiology, Slow Virus Diseases microbiology, Uterine Cervicitis microbiology, Vaginal Smears
- Abstract
Cervical smears of 50 women who had an abortion were examined by dot-blot hybridization for human papillomavirus (HPV), herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2, and cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA. HPV DNA type 16 or 18 positivity was shown in 17.6% of the cases; in the aborted material, however, it amounted to 30.8%. IgM-positive titres were present in a few cases. In cervical smears of intact pregnancies, positivity for HPV DNA types 6 and 11 was detected in 9.5% and for the HSV DNA types 1 and 2 and CMV DNA in 48.0% of the cases. In this group of patients mostly positive IgM and IgG titers were present.
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- 1992
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