PREVALENCE OF HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS IN CERVICAL CELLS AMONG PATIENTS WITH ABNORMAL PAP SMEARS.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common viral infection of the reproductive tract. Cervical cancer is by far the most common HPV-related disease. Nearly more cases of cervical cancer can be attributable to HPV infection.This study designed foe molecular detections and genotyping of human papilloma virus (HPV) by designing methods - Endpoint real time PCR for HPV detections and genotyping of HPV 16 and 18. The study includes 90 Pap smear samples of women suffering from abnormal Pap smears and 10 healthy women as a control , were collected from the Baghdad hospital ( Medical City), Oncology hospital and Al- Amal hospital (in Baghdad), during the period from April, 2015 to April, 2016. The age of women was ranged from 16 to 60 years. The molecular detection method (Designed PCR) in our study was showed that the 35% of women have HPV infections .