Abstract
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are extremely widespread throughout the world. There are more than 100 types of HPVs, of which at least 14 types represent high oncogenic risk viruses (World Health Organization, 2020). Numerous attempts were made to analyze various water sources in order to (i) reveal the presence of DNA of pathogenic human papillomaviruses in them and (ii) assess the potential risks of occurrence of epidemics caused by HPV. With time, the necessity to solve these important problems stimulated the formation of a new direction in the world medical and environmental investigations.
This paper contains the investigation of the presence of DNA of highly dangerous types of human papillomaviruses (HPV6, HPV11, HPV16 and HPV18) in water bodies of the Baikal natural territory, in particular in the water reservoirs in and near the villages of Listvyanka, Bolshiye Koty, Kultuk and the cities of Baikalsk and Slyudyanka. In course of our work, the conditions good for the study of the biological material obtained from water samples by the PCR technique to reveal the presence of DNA of HPV6, HPV11, HPV16 and HPV18 papillomaviruses were chosen. PCR analysis was conducted with the aid of both the already well-known universal primers GP5 + /6 + and the primers developed by our team to be applied to the conservative domains of nucleotide sequences encoding the main capsid protein L1 of human papillomaviruses HPV6, HPV11 (these types of the virus contribute to the occurrence of anogenital condylomatosis and the development of respiratory papillomatosis) and HPV16, HPV16 (these types of virus contribute to the occurrence of cervical cancer).
The analyzes conducted by our team have revealed the presence of DNA of the four types of HPVs (6, 11, 16 and 18) in the samples taken from various water sources of the Baikal natural territory.
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This work was supported by RFBR and the Government of the Irkutsk Region, Grant number 20–44-380001. The reported study was funded by RFBR and the Government of the Irkutsk Region, project number 20–44-380001.
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Stolbikov, A.S., Salyaev, R.K., Nurminsky, V.N. et al. Investigation of the Presence of DNA of Highly Pathogenic Human Papillomaviruses in Water Bodies of the Lake Baikal Natural Territory. Food Environ Virol 14, 258–266 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-022-09529-w
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