Human papillomavirus

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Human papillomavirus

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A 22-year-old woman comes to the clinic to evaluate perianal pruritus and genital lesions. Two months ago, she was diagnosed with acute cervicitis due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae and treated with outpatient antibiotics. She is sexually active and began a monogamous relationship with a new male partner three months ago. They use condoms inconsistently. The patient has had five sexual partners in her lifetime.  Temperature is 37.0°C (98.6°F), pulse is 90/min, respirations are 20/min, and blood pressure is 120/75 mmHg. The abdomen is soft and nontender. External genital examination reveals several smooth, verrucous, skin-colored lesions over the labia majora and minora. Cervical motion tenderness is absent on bimanual examination. Which of the following describes the microorganism most likely responsible for this patient’s symptoms?

External References

First Aid

2024

2023

2022

2021

Human papillomavirus 6 (HPV-6) p. 180

Human papillomavirus 10 (HPV-10) p. 180

Human papillomavirus -17 (HPV--17) p. 691

Human papillomavirus (HPV)

cervical pathology p. 663

HIV-positive adults p. 174

as oncogenic microbe p. 221

penile cancer p. 669

tumor epidemiology p. 660

verrucae p. 485

warts p. 161

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Human papillomaviruses, or HPV for short, are a group of non-enveloped DNA viruses that specifically infect human epithelial cells.

There are over 100 different types of HPVs which can be categorized by the epithelial cells they prefer to infect; like cutaneous epithelial cells of the skin, especially the face, hands and feet; and epithelial cells of mucous membranes, especially the respiratory tract including the pharynx, and nasal and oral cavities; and anal and genital regions.

Some types can cause benign tumors, called papillomas or warts; and some can lead to carcinomas, or cancer of the epithelial cells.

HPV may have contributed to both actor Michael Douglas’s throat cancer diagnosis, and former first lady of Argentina, Eva Perón’s fatal cervical cancer.

Epithelial cells line the outer surfaces of organs and blood vessels and separate the interior of the body from the external world.

They primarily serve as a protective barrier to invasion by pathogenic bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses; and to water loss.

In locations like the skin, anus, genitals, and respiratory tract, they can be stratified, having more than one layer of epithelial cells.

At the base, the layer closest to the interior of the body, these cells are less mature, rounded stem cells, also called basal cells.

Basal cells divide and replenish all the cells found in the epithelium.

As the basal cells divide and mature, they move toward the outermost layer, flattening out and becoming more squamous shaped in appearance.

Once they reach the top layer, these mature, flat cells are exfoliated, or shed, from the epithelium.

Now, typically basal cells are well protected under all those layers.

But if there are abrasions or cuts in the epithelium, HPV can gain access to and infect the basal cells.

Once that happens, HPV can replicate with or without being incorporated into the basal cell’s DNA through the activities of two particular viral genes called E6 and E7.

The proteins of these genes cause dysregulation of tightly-scheduled replication of the epithelial cells by altering the p53 and retinoblastoma protein (pRB) tumor suppressor pathways that typically prevent unregulated growth of the epithelial cells.

In this way, HPV causes uncontrolled replication of the epithelial cells, forming warts, and disrupts the normal structure of the epithelium, forming lesions.

In some types of HPV infections, a squamous epithelial cell can become a koilocyte, or a cells with an irregular shape, enlarged and dark staining nucleus, and a clear area around the nucleus that’s called a perinuclear halo.

These cells are typical of precancerous lesions that can transform into carcinomas when the abnormal epithelial cells break through the basement membrane of the epithelium and invade other tissues.

The cause of an HPV infection is contact with infected epithelial cells.

Some activities can increase the risk of exposure, like having multiple or new infected sexual partners, or delivering a baby through an infected birth canal.

And infections are more likely if a person is already immunocompromised.

Transformation to carcinomas is dependent on HPV type and aided by other cofactors like tobacco use, immunosuppression, and radiation.

Now, many HPV infections are asymptomatic, but when symptoms are present, they can vary by HPV type.

So, symptoms of nongenital cutaneous infections can involve some kind of benign wart.