ABSTRACT
Objective To understand the status quo of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and its genotypes distribution a-mong gynecological outpatients in Chengdu region .Methods The DNA microarray technique combined with PCR and DNA reverse hybridizatio technology was used to detect the genotypes of HPV infection .The data were analyzed by the SPSS 13 .0 software .Re-sults A total of 5 052 samples of cervical exfoliated cells among gynecological outpatients were detected ,and the total positive rate of HPV infection was 17 .52% .The differences of HPV infection among various age groups were statistically significant ,especially the positive rate of HPV infection in the 20-25 years age group was higher than that in the 26-30 years age group and the 31-35 years age group(P<0 .05) ,and which in the 36 -40 years age group was also higher than that in the 26 -30 years age group (P<0 .05) .The positive detection rate of high risk HPV subgenotypes was 18 .1% ,which was higher than 5 .5% of low risk sub-genotypes with statistical difference (P<0 .01) .HPV 52 was the most frequent subgenotypes in high risk subgenotypes ,accounting for 15 .03% ,followed by HPV 16 and HPV 58;HPV 81 was the most frequent subgenotypes in low risk subgenotypes ,accounting for 7 .98% .Conclusion The positive rate of HPV infection among gynecological outpatients is higher ,and the majority of geno-types are high risk .It is suggested that the routine examination of HPV subgenotypes detection focused on different age groups should be recommended .