Human Papillomavirus Prevalence in Oral and Oropharyngeal Rinse and Gargle Specimens of Dental Patients and of an HIV-Positive Cohort from Pretoria, South Africa

Table 4

HPV results of oral wash specimens for dental clinic and HIV clinic.

Overall for dental clinic and HIV clinic populations
Test platform	Category	n = 221	%
Abbott HR HPV result	Negative	202	91.4
	Positive (HPV 16 and 2x HPV other)	3	1.4
	Unknown (not run)	16	7.2
Riatol qPCR HPV genotyping result	Negative	213	96,3
	Low-risk HPV positive (HPV 53 and 67)	2	0.9
	High-risk HPV positive (HPV 16 and 35)	2	0.9
	DNA insufficient run	2	0.9
	Nonevaluable (technical error)	2	0.9
AML β-HPV genotyping result	Negative	216	97.7
	Positive (HPV group 4/40/65)	1	0.5
	DNA insufficient	2	0.9
	Nonevaluable (technical error)	2	0.9

All specimens were tested on the three different platforms.