Table 2.
Frequency of multiple HPV types in women from the three study regions
| Area | TTotal | Not detected (HPV-) | Types (%) of HPV(+) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | (%) | Single type | Two types | Three types | Four types | Five types | Six types | Eight types | |||||||||
| Zhejiang | 941 | 94 | (9.99) | 603 | (64.08) | 183 | (19.45) | 50 | (5.31) | 8 | (0.85) | 2 | (0.21) | 1 | (0.11) | 0 | (0.00) |
| Jiangsu | 784 | 69 | (8.80) | 473 | (60.33) | 170 | (21.68) | 49 | (6.25) | 19 | (2.42) | 3 | (0.38) | 0 | (0.00) | 1 | (0.13) |
| Shanghai | 456 | 37 | (8.11) | 296 | (64.91) | 102 | (22.37) | 19 | (4.17) | 2 | (0.44) | 0 | (0.00) | 0 | (0.00) | 0 | (0.00) |
| Total | 2181 | 200 | (9.17) | 1372 | (62.91) | 454 | (20.82) | 119 | (5.46) | 29 | (1.33) | 5 | (0.23) | 1 | (0.05) | 1 | (0.05) |
The incidence of multiple-type HPV infections in Jiangsu Province was significantly higher (p < 0.05) than in either Zhejiang Province or Shanghai