In 355 women attending for other reasons, such as discharge, pruritus or STD check-up, 4 (1%) had visible signs of HPV infection and 18 (5%) were HPV DNA positive.
A series of 199 male regular sexual partners of women attending an STD clinic for the examination and treatment of HPV-associated diseases was examined by peniscopy, surgical biopsy and nucleic acid hybridization for the presence of clinical, histological and molecular markers pathognomic of HPV infection.
One hundred and sixteen consecutive women attending a Baltimore City STD clinic were studied for the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of the genital tract using three criteria: presence of clinically recognized (visible) genital warts, cytopathologic evidence suggestive of HPV infection in a Papanicolaou smear, and analysis of cervical scrapes for genital tract HPV genomic sequences by Southern hybridization.