High rate of persistent HPV detection after diagnostic cervical excision in older screen-positive women.

Introduction: Diagnostic work-up of older women with a positive cervical cancer screening test is often challenging due to incomplete visualization of the transformation zone. To reduce the risk of missing disease, a diagnostic cervical excision may be performed. However, little is known on treatment efficacy and post-treatment surveillance for older women.

Assessment of a colposcopic scoring system (Swedescore) to reduce the number of cervical biopsies: a protocol for a clinical multicentre non-randomised intervention study in Denmark.

Introduction: Colposcopy is a standard procedure for evaluating cervical abnormalities and collecting cervical biopsies. The procedure is associated with intra- and inter-observer variation. A colposcopic scoring system, Swedescore, has been designed to standardise and facilitate colposcopy training.

Surveillance for infection in U.S. pigs raised under controlled management documents negligible risk for public health.

Biosecurity measures preventing exposure of pigs to rodents, wildlife, and contaminated feed or waste products reduce the risk of zoonotic infection in pork. To understand the benefits of such measures in the United States, we conducted the first comprehensive survey of pigs produced under the Pork Quality Assurance Plus production standard, surveying 3,208,643 pork samples from twelve processing locations tested over a period of 54 months. We detected no sp.

Genome sequence of bacteriophage Djungelskog isolated from an culture.

Actinobacteriophage Djungelskog was isolated from a sample of degraded organic material in Poughkeepsie, NY, using . Its genome is 54,512 bp and encodes 86 putative protein-coding genes. Djungelskog has a siphovirus morphology and is assigned to cluster AW based on gene content similarity to actinobacteriophages.