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anti-HPV
adjective
an·ti-HPV
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Medical Definition of anti-HPV
: acting against or preventing infection with human papillomavirus
an anti-HPV vaccine Screening should continue in all vaccinated women, given the cumulative lifetime risk of exposure to other oncogenic HPV types and the unknown duration of anti-HPV immunity.— George F. Sawaya and Karen Smith-McCune, The New England Journal of Medicine, 10 May 2007
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