Figure 1: Summary of cohort. | Scientific Reports

Figure 1: Summary of cohort.

From: Evidence of disrupted high-risk human papillomavirus DNA in morphologically normal cervices of older women

Figure 1

(a) Flow diagram showing the number of samples which were initially excluded from our study population. (b) Number of samples which were tested initially for HPV using ISH and then further confirmed for the presence of HPV using either Luminex PCR or nested HPV16 E6 PCR. For 12 samples neither PCR assay was performed due to the unavailability of DNA. Luminex PCR was performed on 76 samples and nested HPV16 E6 PCR was performed on 55 of the same samples. Following amplification, evaluable results were available for 57 samples tested with Luminex PCR and 48 for those tested with nested HPV16 E6 PCR. Evaluable results were available for 35 samples which had been tested with both assays.

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