Abstract

BELLO DE ALFORD, M  and  CAIBE R, G. Tipificación del Virus del Papiloma Humano en Papilomatosis Laríngea Recurrente Juvenil. RFM [online]. 2001, vol.24, n.1, pp.62-65. ISSN 0798-0469.

The objective of this study was to determine the HPV types from tissue samples from fifteen (15) patients aged between 3 and 20 years, who had been clinically and histopathologicaly diagnosed as juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis, by means of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test, using a compound of the genomic DNA of HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33 and 35, in the Otoralyngology Department of the University Hospital of Caracas, during the interval 1994-1999. In 53% of the specimen processed were positive, four (4) for HPV type 6 and four (4) for HPV type 11. These results are similar to the findings of international publications. In the remaining samples (47%) were negative for HPV. Furthermore, no other serological types investigated were found, or viral coinfection was detected.

Keywords : Juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis; Polymerase Chain Reaction; HPV.