期刊名称:Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN:1232-1966
电子版ISSN:1898-2263
出版年度:2014
卷号:21
期号:4
页码:822-824
DOI:10.5604/12321966.1129940
出版社:Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要:Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a group of DNA viruses which is an etiological factor of many benign andmalignant diseases of the upper respiratory tract mucosa, female genital tract and the skin. HPV infection is considered asexually-transmitted infection, but can also be transmitted by non-sexual routes, including perinatal vertical transmission,physical contact, iatrogenic infection and autoinoculation. Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP) in children is connectedwith HPV infection transmitted vertically from mother to child during the passage of the foetus through an infected birthcanal.