Background:

genital infection caused by human papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted infection, which affects millions of people around the world.

Objective:

to determine the behavior of human papillomavirus of genital location in adolescents and young women under 25 years.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in girls under 25 years of age attended in the neck pathology clinic of the Nuevitas Polyclinic in the period from January to December 2016; with a universe of 93 patients that with confirmed diagnosis of human papillomavirus in organic cytology.

Results:

the greatest number of patients with human papillomavirus presented intraepithelial lesions, with a high degree of predominance. More than half of the injuries corresponded to the group of young people between 20 and 24 years old. Relationship of the presence of the virus with several risk factors was observed, almost all had their first sexual intercourse early. Around the third part of them had multiple sexual relations, three to five sexual partners prevailed, cervical ectopia was relevant, as gynecological history, leukorrhea was observed as the most frequent symptom.

Conclusions:

there is a close relationship between adolescents with risks and presence of human papillomavirus, the presence of this virus is a predisposing factor for cervical intraepithelial lesions.

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