• Sao Paulo Med J · Jan 2016

    Case Reports

    Detection of human papillomavirus in dental biofilm and the uterine cervix of a pregnant adolescent.

    • Édila Figuerêdo Feitosa Cavalcanti, Célia Regina Silva, Dennis Carvalho Ferreira, Mariana Vasconcellos Martins Ferreira, Patrícia Rosa Vanderborght, Maria Cynésia Medeiros Barros Torres, and Sandra Regina Torres.
    • Department of Oral Pathology and Diagnosis, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    • Sao Paulo Med J. 2016 Jan 1; 134 (1): 889188-91.

    ContextAdolescence and pregnancy are considered to be risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. The relationship between this infection in the uterine cervix and oral HPV infection is controversial.Case ReportThis report describes a case of a pregnant 16-year-old adolescent who presented HPV infection in the uterine cervix and the mouth. Smears were collected from the cervix and the tongue/palate. Dental biofilm samples were also collected. The microarray technique was used to detect HPV. The HPV 56 subtype was observed in the cervical smear and HPV 6 in dental biofilm.ConclusionIn this pregnant adolescent, HPV infection was present in both the cervix and the mouth, but the HPV subtypes infecting these two areas were different.

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