Prevalence and Determinants of Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection in 500 Young Adults from Italy

• Valentina Lupato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Lupato, Dana Holzinger

  Affiliations Department of Neurosciences, Regional Center for Head and Neck Cancer, University of Padua, Treviso, Italy, Unit of Otolaryngology, Azienda Ospedaliera “S. Maria degli Angeli”, Pordenone, Italy

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• Dana Holzinger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Lupato, Dana Holzinger

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Diagnostics of Oncogenic Infections, Infection, Inflammation and Cancer Program, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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• Daniela Höfler,

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Diagnostics of Oncogenic Infections, Infection, Inflammation and Cancer Program, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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• Anna Menegaldo,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Regional Center for Head and Neck Cancer, University of Padua, Treviso, Italy

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• Paolo Giorgi Rossi,

  Affiliations Interinstitutional Epidemiology Unit, Local Health Authority, Reggio Emilia, Italy, Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova, IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy

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• Annarosa Del Mistro,

  Affiliation Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Istituto Oncologico Veneto—IRCCS, Padova, Italy

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• Maria Cristina Da Mosto,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Regional Center for Head and Neck Cancer, University of Padua, Treviso, Italy

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• Michael Pawlita ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Diagnostics of Oncogenic Infections, Infection, Inflammation and Cancer Program, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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• Paolo Boscolo-Rizzo

  * E-mail: paolo.boscolorizzo@unipd.it

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Regional Center for Head and Neck Cancer, University of Padua, Treviso, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4635-7959

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