This eliminates the necessity for a clinician-performed pelvic examination for women, or a urethral swab for men, for sample collection. These nucleic acid amplification assays used with selfcollected specimens are highly sensitive and specific, and their use may be extended to broad nonclinic ...
standalone screening tests as colposcopy and histologically confirmed CIN for cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings Methods 1,601 women in Sharkya Governerate, Egypt concurrently received HPV DNA testing [ Hybrid Capture 2 (HC2) assay] for self-collected and physician-obtained samples, ...
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) in pregnancy is related to numerous adverse events; however, the validity of different methods of vaginal swab collection to diagnosis BV among pregnant women is unclear. This study examines the validity of self-collected compared with provider-collected vaginal swabs and desc...
et al. HPV detection in a self-collected vaginal swab combined with VIA for cervical cancer screening with correlation to histologically confirmed CIN. Arch Gynecol Obstet 290, 1207–1213 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-014-3321-6 Download citation Received14 October 2013 Accepted16 ...
One (11%) of 9 women with high-grade disease who did not have HPV DNA detected on the clinician-obtained sample had HPV DNA detected on the self-collected vaginal swab. Age Differences in Test Performance No significant differences existed in the prevalence of high-grade disease, prevalence ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a kit that will allow women to collect their own vaginal sample for HPV screening, a move that could increase early detection in those at risk forcervical cancer. Ad Women will be able to swab themselves in privacy at a doctor's office,...
All women were instructed to self-collect a vaginal swab on site immediately prior to a gynecologic exam, during which a cervical sample was collected. Both self- and clinician-collected samples were tested for high risk HPV types (16, 18, 45, 31, 33, 35, 52, 58, 51, 59, 39, 56,...
OBJECTIVES: To describe the methods used for, cooperation with, assays conducted on, and applications of vaginal specimens collected by older women in their homes. METHODS: Community-residing women (N = 1,550), ages 57-85 years, participated in a nationally representative probability survey. Vagi...
Vaginal self-sampling was collected using dry FLOQSwabs® 552C.80 (Copan Italia, SpA, Brescia, Italy), a flocked swab that consists of a molded plastic applicator stick with a regular and shaped tip. The tip of the applicator is coated with short Nylon® fibers that are arranged in a ...
International Journal of Women's Health Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article ORIGINAL RESEARCH Can HPV Test on Random Urine Replace Self-HPV Test on Vaginal Self-Samples or Clinician-Collected Cervical Samples? Yu-Hsiang Shih , Lou Sun , Shih-...