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A review of recent Slovenian studies of HPV

At the 4th congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society with international participation, a brief review of recent Slovenian studies on different HPV topics was presented, covering evaluation of different commercial tests for detection of high-risk HPV, role of HPV in the etiopathogenesis of different tumors, studies of hair follicles as an important endogenous reservoir of HPV, development of a real-time PCR assay for detection and genotyping of HPV-6 and HPV-11, genomic diversity of HPV-6, HPV-11, HPV-38 and HPV-53 and HPV testing in routine gynecological practice.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 25099737

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Detection and differentiation of human papillomavirus genotypes HPV-6 and HPV-11 by FRET-based real-time PCR

Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a very fast and sensitive molecular method for the detection of various microorganisms that infect humans. RT-PCR represents the most promising future tool for detection and genotyping of human papillomaviruses (HPV). During the postdoc project we improved our original RT-PCR method for detection and differentiation of prototypic and nonprototypic HPV-6 genomic variants to additionally detect HPV11. HPV6 and HPV11 are the principal etiological agents of benign tumors in the anogenital region and lower respiratory tract.

F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures

COBISS.SI-ID: 25489881