Multiple choice

HPV infection is mainly limited to:

Human papilloma virus is capable of infecting humans.

  1. squamous epithelium

  2. cuboidal epithelium

  3. columnar epithelium

  4. stratified epithelium

  5. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

HPV infection is limited to the basal cells of stratified epithelium, the only tissue in which they replicate. HPV cannot bind to live tissue; it infects epithelial tissues through micro-abrasions or other epithelial trauma that exposes segments of the basement membrane.

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