Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Colombian Women’s

Infection, coinfection and type-specific human papillomavirus (HPV) distribution was evaluated in human immunodefi-ciency virus (HIV)-positive women from paired cervical and urine samples. Paired cervical and urine samples (n = 204) were taken from HIV-positive women for identifying HPV-DNA presence by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with three generic primer sets (GP5+/6+, MY09/11 and pU1M/2R). HPV-positive samples were typed for six high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) (HPV-16,-18,-31,-33,-45 and-58) and two low-risk (LR-HPV) (HPV-6/11) types. Agreement between paired sample results and diagnostic performance was evaluated. HPV infection prevalence was 70.6 % in cervical and 63.2 % in urine samples. HPV-16 was the most prevalent HPV type in both types of sample (66.7 % in cervical samples and 62.0 % in urine) followed by HPV-31(47.2%) in cervical samples and HPV-58 (35.7%) in urine samples. There was 55.4 % coinfection (infection by mor