Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is the most common bacterial cause of sexually transmitted disease. High-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) is considered the main etiological agent for cervical neoplasia. Evidences showed that the presence of co-infection of CT and HR-HPV plays a central role in the etiology of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and cervical cancer. The goals of this study were: evaluate the human papillomavirus (HPV) and CT prevalence among Brazilian women with abnormal cytology and provide the effect of this association on the severity of cervical neoplasia. The population of this study was composed by 142 women with incident histological incidence of CIN grades I, II, III or cervical cancer from Recife, Northeast of Brazil. The polymerase chain reaction method on a cervical brush specimen was used to detect both agents and the automatic sequencing method was used for HPV genotyping assay. The prevalence of HPV and CT was 100 and 24.65 %, respectively. Thirteen types of HPV were detected; HPV 16, 18, 31 and 33 were the most common. The most prevalent HPV types were HPV 16 and 18. A significant association between CT positive and HPV 16 infection was found (p < 0.0106; OR = 5.31; 95 % IC 1.59-17.67). In the study population, there was diversity of HPV infections, with high-risk types being the most common. Also, the data collected suggest that CT infection may play an important role in the natural history of HPV infection.
The findings suggest an association between two TNFA SNPs and susceptibility to HPV infection in women from Northeast Brazil. The results need to be functionally validated and replicated in other populations with different ethnic backgrounds.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are strongly associated with the development of
cervical intraepithelial neoplasias and invasive cervical cancer. Polymorphisms in
cytokine-encoding genes and behavioural cofactors could play an important role in
protecting an individual against viral infections and cancer. Here, we investigated
whether IL-6 -174 G>C, IL-8 +396 G>T, and
TGF-β1 +869 G>C and +915 G>C polymorphisms were associated
with susceptibility to HPV infection in women from north-east (Pernambuco) Brazil. We
analysed 108 healthy uninfected women (HC) and 108 HPV-positive women with cervical
lesions. Genetic polymorphisms were assessed using Sanger sequencing and polymerase
chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism. Comparison of the
distribution of the genotypic and allelic frequencies of the IL-18 +396 T>G
polymorphism between HPV infected woman an uninfected controls showed that the GG
genotype and G allele were both more frequent in the HC group, and were associated
with protection from HPV infection (p = 0.0015; OR = 0.29 CI95% = 0.13-0.61; p =
0.0005; OR = 0.45 CI95% 0.29-0.7, respectively). Individuals from the control group
could have previously had HPV infection that was spontaneously eliminated; however,
it was undetectable at the time of sample collection. Based on our findings, we
hypothesize that the IL-8 +396 G>T polymorphism could interfere
with susceptibility to HPV infection, by modulating the ability of immune system to
fight the virus.
to obtain more reliable results, it is necessary the use of more than one primer system to detect HPV infections. We believe that the three techniques studied are important and suitable for the clinical diagnosis of HPV, when they are appropriately combined.
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