The prevalence of multiple or single HPV infection and genotype distribution in healthy Chinese women: A systemic review.

Background: We analyzed the prevalence and genotype distribution of multiple- or single-type cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in a population of women in mainland China.

Methods: PubMed, MEDLINE, and Chinese databases (CNKI, VIP, and Wan Fang) were searched for studies on HPV prevalence and the examination of this relationship. All analyses were performed using STATA (version 12.0). Data from selected studies were extracted into tables, and all included studies were weighted and summarized.

Results: Thirty studies were included. The prevalence of single types (10.4%) and multiple types (4.7%) primarily occurred in healthy Chinese women, in which the dominant single-type infection was HPV16 (1.6%), 52 (1.5%), 58 (1.0%), and 18 (0.5%), and the dominant type of multiple infection was HPV16 (0.7%), 52 (0.7%), 58 (0.6%), and 18 (0.3%). The prevalence in North and South China was 14.3%, in which the prevalence of the single type was 10.41% and 8.27%, and the prevalence of multiple types was 4.00% and 6.52%, respectively.

Conclusion: Mainland China exhibits unique type-specific single and multiple HPV infections. Overall single or multiple HPV prevalence varied across regions of China, whereas type-specific HPV differences were relatively small.