Prevalence of Human Pappiloviruses in Upper Respiratory Tracts of Half-Year-Old Infants Born From Infected Women

Abstract

With high HPV-infection prevalence among reproductive women there is an increased HPV incidence rate in pregnant women. Cases of papillomatosis of larynx, trachea, bronchi in children, born from infected mothers, testify to the possibility of not only intranatal, transplacental ways, but also of contact transmission of the infection from mother to child. Therefore, at present the definition of frequency and risk factors for HPV persistence in the upper respiratory tracts of the children born from women with both clinical and subclinical evidence of the infection is quite topical.