Influence of human papillomavirus infection on the vaginal microbiome of women with immunocompetency
Influência da infecção por papillomavirus humano no microbioma vaginal de mulheres imunocompetentes
DST j. bras. doenças sex. transm; 26 (1/4), 2014
Publication year: 2014
The influence of vaginal infections on the natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) is still unclear.
Objective:
To determine if patientswith low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSILs) and HPV have more vulvovaginitis than patients with normal liquid-based cervical cytology whowere negative for HPV.Methods:
This is a cross-sectional study including 322 patients who underwent cervical exams. One hundred and sixty-seven ofthese patients had LSILs on cervical cytology and were simultaneously hybrid capture 2 (HC2)-positive for HPV, and the remaining 155 patients were negative for malignancies and intraepithelial lesions by cytology and HC2-negative for HPV. The prevalence of vaginal infections in both groups was compared using the X2 test without Yates' correction.Results:
Among the patients with HPV and LSILs, the most common vaginal infection was vaginosis(8.98%) compared to candidiasis (12.9%) in the patients without LSILs and HPV. No significant differences were found in the prevalence of vaginosisbetween the two groups (p=0.53). Candidiasis was statistically more prevalent in patients without LSILs and HPV (p<0.001).Conclusion:
An associationwas found between the presence of Candida and the absence of HPV. Although vaginosis was more frequent among patients with LSILs and HPV, it wasnot statistically significant.
A influência das infecções vaginais na história natural do papillomavirus humano (HPV) ainda é incerta.