How to Use papillomavirus in a Sentence

papillomavirus

noun
  • It’s on the same level as other highly effective vaccines, such as those for measles and the papillomavirus.
    Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2020
  • While only a doctor can diagnose you for sure, the bumps could be genital warts, a common effect of the human papillomavirus.
    Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The state does not require children to be immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV).
    Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • These cancers are rising fast, especially in men, and research suggests that HPV, the human papillomavirus, is spreading through oral sex.
    Marilynn Marchione, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
  • When one Republican tried to get an exemption for the human papillomavirus vaccine, tempers flared.
    Wayne Drash, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • In healthcare, a new detection kit for human papillomavirus and Zika virus promises to speed diagnosis testing from hours to minutes.
    Jennifer Lu, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • Many had lesions on their feet, which veterinarians have identified as a papillomavirus — from the same viral family that gives humans warts but is unique to northern fulmars.
    Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Twarock’s tilings therefore applied to a wider range of viruses, including the polyomaviruses and papillomaviruses that had evaded Caspar and Klug’s classification.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2017
  • Virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by infection with human papillomavirus , which inserts its genetic material into a human cell’s DNA.
    Malcolm Ritter, The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Human papillomavirus infection, for example, is known to significantly increase the chances of developing cervical cancer.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Human papillomavirus, for example, often causes cervical precancer and cancer.
    Roger Marshall, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021

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