The Human Papillomaviruses A Review

Authors: Marvin A Lutzner

Publish Date: 1983/08/01

Volume: 119, Issue: 8, Pages: 631-635

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Abstract

Mankind has been plagued by warts for centuries as evidenced by the early writings of the Roman physician Celsus who in 25 AD1 coined the terms myrmecia anthill to depict the subterranean cavernous plantar wart ficus fig to depict genital warts and thymion thyme plant to depict common warts It was suggested as early as the GrecoRoman times that anogenital warts were venereally spread The contagiousness of warts was further supported by the recorded observations of physicians in the 18th and 19th centuries who were unfortunate enough to have warts develop on their own hands following manipulation of patients warts and the writings of experimentalists who successfully inoculated themselves or others with wart extracts2 Ciuffo3 in 1907 first demonstrated that warts were probably caused by a virus when he successfully produced warts on his own hands by inoculating himself with a sterile wart extract This extract had

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