Gardasil Versus Cervarix in the Treatment of Warts

Summary

Warts are common, benign, epidermal proliferations caused by HPV infecting skin and mucous membranes. Treatment of warts poses a true challenge despite existing variable therapeutic modalities, whether destructive or immunotherapeutic. Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines are FDA approved for the prevention of genital warts and wart related precancerous and cancerous lesions but they are not indicated for treatment of preexisting warts yet

Timeline

Start

2020-09-01

Primary completion

2021-10-01

Completion

2021-12-01

Publications

• Background Nofal A, Marei A, Amer A, Amen H. Significance of interferon gamma in the prediction of successful therapy of common warts by intralesional injection of Candida antigen. Int J Dermatol. 2017 Oct;56(10):1003-1009. doi: 10.1111/ijd.13709. Epub 2017 Aug 8.
• Background Nofal A, Marei A, Ibrahim AM, Nofal E, Nabil M. Intralesional versus intramuscular bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in the treatment of recalcitrant common warts. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Jan;82(1):94-100. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2019.07.070. Epub 2019 Jul 29.
• Background Nofal A, Nofal E, Yosef A, Nofal H. Treatment of recalcitrant warts with intralesional measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine: a promising approach. Int J Dermatol. 2015 Jun;54(6):667-71. doi: 10.1111/ijd.12480. Epub 2014 Jul 29.
• Background Landis MN, Lookingbill DP, Sluzevich JC. Recalcitrant plantar warts treated with recombinant quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2012 Aug;67(2):e73-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2011.08.022. No abstract available.
• Background Kreuter A, Waterboer T, Wieland U. Regression of cutaneous warts in a patient with WILD syndrome following recombinant quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination. Arch Dermatol. 2010 Oct;146(10):1196-7. doi: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.290. No abstract available.

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