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1
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What are low risk HPV types associated with? Which strains are low risk and which of these are most prevalent?

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  • ano-genital condyloma
  • low grade cervical dysplasia [CIN 1]
  • HPV 6 and 11 = main types of low risk
  • also: 40, 42, 43, 44, 54
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Which strains are high risk HPV? Which are the most prevalent?

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  • most prevalent: 16 [55% of cervical cancers] and 18 [15% of cervical cancers]
  • less prevalent: 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 68
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What are high risk HPV types associated with?

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  • high grade dysplasia
  • cervical cancer
  • persistent HPV is greatest risk for malignant transformation
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What types of cancers [besides cervical] is HPV associated with?

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70-80% of anal cancers
40-50% of vulva/vaginal cancers
40-50% of penile cancers
25-60% of oral/oropharyngeal cancers

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What is a pap smear?

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screening test for cervical cancer –> use exfoliated cervical cells collected transvaginally

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How is HPV transmitted?

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sexual transmission

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What are the classifications of pap smear finding?

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  • NILM = negative for intra-epithelial lesion malignancy
  • ASC = atypical squamous cells
  • SIL = squamous intrapeithelial lesion
  • LSIL = low grade SIL [mild dypslasia, CIN1]
  • HGSIL = high grade SIL [moderate/severe dysplasia, carcinoma in situ [CIS], CIN2/3]
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How do you get rid of HPV

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most HPV clear spontaneously [including both high and low risk types]

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What are co-factors for cervical cancer risk along with HPV infection?

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  • long term use of oral contraceptive
  • high number full-term pregnancies
  • tobacco smoking
  • past infection with HSV-2 and chlamydia trachomatis
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Does having an oncogenic form of HPV mean you will get cancer?

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having oncogenic HPV is necessary but not sufficient

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Why are HPV 16/18 so causative of cancer?

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  • they are more likely to give persistent infection rather than clear right away
  • shorter latency [shorter time between infection and seeing clinically significant disease]
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What are viral properties of HPV?

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  • non-enveloped
  • DNA virus
  • double stranded circular genome
  • icosahedral capsid
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What is structure of HPV genome?

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  • early E region codes for proteins that control DNA replication
  • – viral replication proteins E1, E2, E3, E4
  • – oncogenic transforming proteins E6, E7
  • late L region codes for major capsid protein L1 and minor capsid protein L2
  • non-coding upstream regulatory region
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What is importance of E6 and E7 HPV protein?

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they are oncogenic transforming proteins

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What controls expression of E6 and E7 proteins in HPV?

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  • E2 viral replication protein represses E6/E7 transcription

- integration of viral genome in host DNA allows E6/E7 to be over expressed

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What is function of E6 HPV protein?

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  • inhibits p53 protein

- —> inhibits apoptosis, promotes loss of cell-cycle control

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What is function of E7 HPV protein?

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  • degrades pRB [retinoblastoma protein, tumor suppressor]

- —> accelerates DNA synthesis, disrupts cell cycle control

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Which class of HPV antigens gives humoral immune response?

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two classes of HPV antigens: early and late proteins

early: humoral immune response modest or absent
late: get consistent/strong neutralizing antibody response

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What are the late protein antigens of HPV?

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capsid antigens

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How does HPV evade immune system?

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  • it doesn’t infect APCs
  • infected keratinocytes less susceptible than other infected cell to CTL lysis –> little tissue destruction
  • virus infects only epithelium without blood-borne phase
  • poor immune response to early viral protein
  • theres is variable immune response to late viral capsid proteins
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How do you classify types of papillomaviruses?

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L1 gene –> classified as different type if L1 nucleotide seq is at least 10% dissimilar

22
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What type of vaccine is HPV vaccine?

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  • type specific sub-unit vaccine

- antigen is virus-like particle [VLP] = virus shells

23
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What strains are in the HPV2 vaccines?

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HPV 16, 18

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What strains are in the HPV4 vaccines?

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HPV 6, 11, 16, 18

25
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HPV2 vs HPV4: antigen and adjuvant

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HPV2

  • antigen: baculovirus expression vector system in insect cells
  • adjuvant: alum

HPV4

  • antigen: yeast system
  • adjuvant: ASO4
26
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Is HPV2 or HP4 better at producing neutralizing antibodies to HPV16/18?

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HPV2 is better

27
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What is gardasil?

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HPV4 vaccine

28
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What is cervarix?

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HPV2 vaccine

29
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Which HPV vaccine has more potent adjuvant? What does this mean?

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HPV2 –> might influence duration of immune response and cross-protection against other HPV types not in vaccine

30
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What is the next HPV vaccine under investigation?

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9 valent vaccine

31
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What are recommendations for giving HPV2?

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  • girls age 11 or 12
  • girls/women 13-26 who did not get all 3 doses when they were younger

ideal is to give before onset of sexual activity

32
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What are recommendations for HPV4?

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  • girls and boys 11-12
  • girls 13-26 or guys 13-21 who did not previously get doses
  • through age 26 for msm or immunocompromised men

ideal is to give before onset of sexual activity

33
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What are risk factors for anal cancer besides HPV?

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75-80% of anal cancer related to HPV

other risk factors: number of lifetime sexual partners, receptive anal intercourse, immunosuppression

34
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What is the anal T zone?

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  • transition from stratified squamous to columnar epithelium
  • similar to cervical T zone
  • location where vast majortiy of anal dysplastic lesions occur
35
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What are AIN?

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anal intraepithelial neoplasia = neoplastic precursor that occurs in anal t zone

36
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What are risk factors for penile cancer?

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40-50% linked to RPV

risk factors: lack of circumcision, chronic inflammation

37
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What are risk factors for oropharyngeal cancer?

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  • up to 60% in US associated wtih HPV-16

- other risks: tobacco, alcohol, number of lifetime partners

38
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Is there any test available for clinical use to determine whether female has an HPV type?

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nope!

39
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How is HPV transmitted?

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  • mostly penetrative sexual contact

- some non-penetrative sexual contact

40
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What is disease associated with oral HPV?

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strong association with oropharyngeal cancer

41
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If the HPV vaccine 3 dose schedule is interrupted what do you do?

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  • do not need to restart series
  • if series interrupted after first dose –> administer as soon as possible, separate 2nd and 3rd doses by at least 12 wks
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Are there any ACIP recommendations for specific groups?

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  • no recommendation for those with history of dysplasia

- ACIP recommendations address certain special populations

43
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If patient had previous cervical dysplasia should you give HPV vaccine?

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no specific recommendation currently –> discuss with patient and let them make their decision

44
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What are current ways of testing HPV?

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  • serology
  • viral shedding
  • cytology test [do with cervical cancer screening]
45
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What are downsides of serology testing for HPV?

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  • under-estimates number of infected individuals
  • people with current/past infection may not always develop antibodies [<70% of those with HPV will react to antibody test]
46
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What are two types of viral shedding test for HPV?

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  • hybrid capture test: pooling 13 common high-risk types

- type specific test: DNA PCR type specific viral testing of E6/E7 mRNA

47
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What is evidence of HPV infection in pap smear?

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atypical cells of undetermined significance or squamouts in

48
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How is HPV persistence currently identified?

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by viral shedding not serologic testing

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