The Clinical Role of HPV Testing in Primary and Secondary Cervical Cancer Screening
Figure 2
High-risk human papilloma virus type-specific prevalence of infection, percentage of women with a persistent infection and percentage of women with persistent infection who developed CIN3 or worse during follow-up period of more than 13 years after one positive test for high-risk HPV or a persistent infection (defined as two positive tests) with various specific high-risk HPV types in women with normal cytological findings [8].