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Table 5.

Human Papillomavirus Type 16 DNA Load of the Newly Detected Infection in Women Who Continued to Be Positive Compared With Those Who Became Negative at Subsequent Visit

No. of Visits Subsequent to Newly Detected Infection	No. Excluded ^a	Remaining Positive		Becoming Negative		P^b
No. of Visits Subsequent to Newly Detected Infection	No. Excluded ^a	no.	Log₁₀ Viral Copies/ng of Cellular DNA (Mean Load ± SD)	no.	Log₁₀ Viral Copies/ng of Cellular DNA (Mean Load ± SD)	P^b
1	13	47	2.26 ±1.71	34	.76 ±1.14	.001
2	22	17	1.79 ±1.36	8	1.92 ±1.54	.79
3	7	3	2.06 ±2.27	7	1.25 ±1.08	.45

NOTE. Data are from 94 women with a newly detected infection prior to the last follow-up visit.

Excluded were women who did not return for follow-up at the visit evaluated or who had CIN3 diagnosed one visit before.

Adjusted for smoking status at enrollment and cytologic findings at the follow-up visits from which samples were assayed for viral load for analyses of retaining viral load–related positivity at subsequent visits 1 and 2 but not visit 3 (due to the small number of women seen at this visit).