Search for dissertations about: "HPV-vaccination"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the word HPV-vaccination.

  2. 16. Vaccine safety, vaccine effectiveness and other determinants for successful immunisation programmes

    Author : Favelle Lamb; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The studies in this thesis examined several key determinants for successful uptake of vaccinations in the Nordic countries, with focus on vaccine safety and vaccine effectiveness. In study I, we investigated whether disease history is a risk factor for narcolepsy after vaccination with the pandemic influenza vaccine, Pandemrix, which was circulated between 2009 and 2010. READ MORE

  4. 17. Studies on human papillomavirus (HPV) and other markers in the development and prognosis of HPV associated cancer

    Author : Andreas Ährlund-Richter; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background and aims: Human papilloma virus (HPV) is a risk factor for anogenital and oropharyngeal cancer (OPSCC) and commonly transmitted sexually although most infections are cleared without adverse effects. Notably, the past decades the incidences of HPV positive (HPV+), but not HPV negative (HPV-) tonsillar and base of tongue cancer (TSCC and BOTSCC), the two major OPSCC subtypes have both increased. READ MORE

  5. 18. Human papillomaviruses of skin and genital lesions

    Author : Hanna K Johansson; Malmö Klinisk mikrobiologi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Human papillomavirus; condylomas; ASCUS; CIN1; non-melanoma skin cancer; metagenomic sequencing; PCR;

    Abstract : Around 5% of all cancer cases worldwide are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) which has been established as the cause of cervical cancer and genital warts (condylomas). Cutaneous HPV types have been weakly associated with non-melanoma skin lesions such as squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and actinic keratosis (AK). READ MORE

  6. 19. Clinical implications of HPV in oropharyngeal cancer

    Author : Per Attner; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Tonsillar cancer incidence has been increasing in Sweden and many other western countries in the last decades despite that other head and neck cancers are decreasing. It is now established that Human Papillomavirus (HPV) can be accredited part of that increase. READ MORE

  7. 20. Human papillomavirus in men who have sex with men, transgender women and people living with HIV in Pakistan

    Author : Muslima Ejaz; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Anal infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) and associated anal squamous intraepithelial lesions (ASIL), are more prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM) particularly among MSM and transgender women living with HIV The high prevalence of HIV among MSM and transgender women in Pakistan is a significant health concern and access to screening and health-seeking is often delayed due to stigmatization and discrimination. Anal Papanicolaou (Pap) screening may have utility in the identification of these lesions and is a cost- effective modality for anal cancer prevention among MSM, but no such data are available for Pakistan. READ MORE