Monthly Archives: January 2010

Immunology of Genital Warts

HPV infection on the host immune response, include cell-mediated immunity and humoral immunity.
First, cell-mediated immunity
Human cells immunity is one of the important foundation of Genital Warts. Cell-mediated immunity is more important than the humoral immunity. With the clinical immune defect in patients with Genital Warts rash often persistent, their peripheral blood T-cell count increased inhibitory [...]

Transmission of Genital Warts

Genital Warts is highly contagious. Genital Warts varying lengths of incubation period, usually 3 weeks to 8 months, with an average of 3 months. Some patients, six months ago, there are unclean sexual intercourse, we are very confused when we find we get Genital Warts, when the doctor asked, they often deny that we get [...]

Epidemiology of Genital warts

Genital warts caused by human papilloma virus. At present agreed that the disease is on the rise, becoming the most common STDS in disease prevalence in young adults up to 0.5% -1%. Genital warts incidence rate from by 30/10 in 1970 to 260/10 million in 1988, the increase almost eight-fold, the United States the incidence [...]

Pathogenesis of Genital warts

Condyloma acuminata (Genital warts) HPV infection transmitted through sexual contact, contact parts of the small trauma can promote infection, three kinds of squamous epithelium (skin, mucosa, metaplasia) on HPV infection rates are sensitive to. Each type of clinical HPV and special damages related to, and the squamous epithelium of the skin or mucous membranes have [...]