Prevalence of human papillomavirus genotypes in women of different ethnicity from rural northwestern Ecuador

• DOI: 10.1186/s44263-024-00078-x
• Publication Date: 2024-07-10T12:02:17Z
• Authors: Rosa de los Ángel...; Karina Ponce; Andrea Guenther; Juan D. Mosquera; Carolina Armijos; Lorena Mejía; Gabriela Bustamante; Sonia Zapata
• Keywords: Remote communities; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; Esmeraldas; Ethnic group; High-risk HPV; Research; Variants; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270

In Ecuador, cervical cancer is the third most common among women and second cause of cancer-related death in women. Although HPV represents a serious public health problem worldwide, information about its prevalence genotypes remote communities Ecuador limited. The aim this study was to determine distribution ethnic minority from two northwestern region Ecuador: Afro-Ecuadorians Chachis (Amerindian group).