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To determine human papillomavirus (HPV) types distribution in cervical lesions in a Southern Italian female population in Messina and their relationship between HPV type and grade of colposcopic and histopathological abnormality, a total of 253 women aged 17–68 years, with previous cytological abnormalities, were included in this study. HPV-DNA testing, colposcopy and biopsy were performed. For each sample, cervical cells were collected by centrifugation and DNA was extracted, followed by a PCR-based HPV-DNA assay and reverse dot blot genotyping. HPV-16 was found the most common type (46.6 %) followed by HPV-31 (26.9 %), −6 (18.6 %), −58 (8.8 %), −18 (6.7 %), −66 (5.7 %), −52 and −53 (4.7 %). Out of 62 women with abnormal transformation zone (ATZ) area compatible with squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) or cervical cancer (CC), 64.5 % was found high risk (HR) HPV-positive. Moreover the severity of the colposcopic diagnosis was positively correlated with the higher HPV oncogenicity risk (HPV-16 P= 0.023; and HPV-53 P= 0.047). The HPV-16 was found the most prevalent type within each histological category: 66.7 %, 31.2 %, 44 % and 37.2 % of CC, high grade (H)SIL, low grade (L)SIL and chronic cervicitis respectively; followed by HPV-31 present in 25 %, 8 %, and 13.3 % of HSIL, LSIL and chronic cervicitis respectively. A higher HPV incidence than the rest of Italy was found, in agreement with that detected by other authors for the South of the country. These data provide further information about the types prevalence in women with cervical lesions living in Eastern Sicily, suggesting the introduction of new targeted vaccines against a wider spectrum of HPV.

Conclusione Nel primo cenno fugace cheSavelli fece a questi fatti in occasione del suo lavoro sull'eleocloroplasto (3), egli diceva di avere incontrato cellule contenenti sferule incolori solide (ma che in antecedenza avevano dovuto essere liquide), delle stesse dimensioni delle sferule lipidiche degli eleocloroplasti, con le quali « confessava » di averle confuse « pur non riuscendo a trovare al di sotto di esse la coppa stromatica che in tal caso avrebbe dovuto esserci ». Dimostrare l'esistenza di questo stroma, è quello appunto che abbiamo fatto noi; e la constatazione ehe esso è per lo più incolore allarga il quadro di tali manifestazioni. La fusione delle gocciole di secreto lipidico in una massa (che può, in definitiva, apparire unica e grande tanto da poter anche occludere completamente la cavità cellulare), è il lato inatteso che disorienta l'osservatore non prevenuto. Per tutto questo, ed anche per il loro contenuto sterinico, queste concrezioni lipidiche di sicura origine plastidica, valgono in certo modo a confermare che l'abbaglio diMirande circa i pretesi « sterinoplasti » celava un'idea molto migliore dell'osservazione; e provano ancora una volta che in certi casi l'errore è forse una verità troppo presto abbandonata.

Presents the poem "Asylum," by Carmela Caruso. First Line: Cornered by the cobwebbed ceiling, the Community room; Last Line: on a face in an expressionless room.