Author Description

In this book, a comprehensive review has been presented to apprise readers regarding the most commonly sexually transmitted infectious agent, Human Papillomavirus; and its role in causation in Carcinoma cervix.Further, we have briefly presented important aspects of diagnosis and management of Carcinoma cervix. We have also tried to compile different tools which have been developed to screen Carcinoma cervix.Greater emphasis has been given to nucleic acid based HPV detection tools, especially in-house protocol, which has been developed to detect HR HPVs; and to screen women at risk of carcinoma cervix.We hope that this book shall help clinicians, pathologists, microbiologists and molecular biologists in the better understanding of the subject and also in dealing with the screening and early diagnosis of carcinoma cervix in women.