| abstract |
The invention relates to human papillomaviruses HPV, particularly to HPV-DNAs isolated from papillomaviruses HPV-2d, HPV-10b, HPV-14a, HPV-14b, HPV-15, HPV-17a, HPV-17b, HPV-19, HPV-20, HPV-21, HPV-22, HPV-23, HPV-24, HPV-28, HPV-29, HPV-31, HPV-32, HPV-IP2 and HPV-IP4. The invention also relates to DNA capable of hybridizing with the HPV-DNAs or fragments thereof, to kits containing distinct groups of probes containing one or more of these HPV-DNAs or fragments thereof, and to procedures for detecting and identifying HPV in tissue. |