Skip to main content

Table 2 Comparison of HPV nested PCR/sequencing and HC2 test results

From: Routine human papillomavirus genotyping by DNA sequencing in community hospital laboratories

  

PCR Results

  
  

Negative

High Risk

Low Risk

Unsat.

Total

HC2 Results

Negative

364

23

16

0

403

 

High Risk

8

50

17

0

75

 

Low Risk

NP

NP

NP

  
 

Unsat.

34

1

 

0

35

 

Total

406

74

33

0

513

  1. HC2, Hybrid Capture 2; HPV, human papillomavirus; PCR, polymerase chain reaction.
  2. Unsat. Test results or specimens considered inadequate for evaluation.
  3. High Risk HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 68.
  4. Low Risk HPV types other than those listed as High Risk.
  5. NP = not performed.
  6. Data are given as number of specimens