Opinion Paper

Fighting cervical cancer in Africa: Taking a closer look at human papillomavirus 35

Sophia U. Okeke
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 13, No 1 | a2243 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v13i1.2243 | © 2024 Sophia U. Okeke | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 26 June 2023 | Published: 29 January 2024

About the author(s)

Sophia U. Okeke, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; and College Research and Innovation Hub, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Abstract

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Keywords

HPV; vaccines; HPV35; genomics; cervical cancer

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