Name this virus targeted by the vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix which causes cervical cancer.
This pathogen leads to an increase in protein p16 but inactivates it. Research on this pathogen led to the 2008 No- bel Prize in Medicine for Harald zur Hausen and two of its more than one hundred types cause flat warts on the hands and plantar warts on the feet. Genes E6/E7 of types sixteen and eighteen of this virus promote deadly tumor growth in infected epithelial tissue. The vaccines against it are called quadrivalent because they protect against four types of this virus, which is considered by the CDC to be the most common sexually transmitted disease. Name this virus targeted by the vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix which causes cervical cancer.
This pathogen leads to an increase in protein p16 but inactivates it.
{HPV} [or {human papilloma virus;} prompt on papillomavirus]