Mathematical model of HPV provides insight into impacts of risk factors and vaccine

PLoS Med. 2006 May;3(5):e164. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030164. Epub 2006 Apr 4.

Abstract

Kim discusses a study by Barnabas and colleagues in PLoS Medicine in which the researchers used a mathematical model to assess the effect of sexual transmission of HPV 16 in a Finnish population.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Cost of Illness
  • Developing Countries*
  • Female
  • Finland / epidemiology
  • Forecasting
  • Humans
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Papillomaviridae / pathogenicity*
  • Papillomavirus Infections / complications
  • Papillomavirus Infections / epidemiology
  • Papillomavirus Infections / immunology
  • Papillomavirus Infections / prevention & control*
  • Papillomavirus Vaccines*
  • Risk Factors
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / economics
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / immunology
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / prevention & control*
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / virology
  • Viral Vaccines*

Substances

  • Papillomavirus Vaccines
  • Viral Vaccines