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Table 3 Prevalence of HPV types prevented by the Gardasil HPV vaccine and hypothetical vaccine protection against prevalent infectionsa

From: HPV infection among rural American Indian women and urban white women in South Dakota: an HPV prevalence study

 

American Indian

White

 

(n= 235)

(n= 246)

 

%

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

Infected by HPV types prevented by Gardasil vaccine

    

   Type 6

1

(0-3)

1

(0-2)

   Type 11

1

(1-3)

0

--

   Type 16

5

(3-8)

6

(3-10)

   Type 18

5

(3-10)

1

(1-3)

Hypothetical protection a by Gardasil against prevalent HPV infection

    

   Not applicable (no infection)

58

(51-65)

77

(71-82)

   No protection

32

(26-38)

15

(11-21)

   Partial protection

5

(3-8)

2

(1-4)

   Full protection

5

(3-10)

6

(3-10)

  1. Prevalence estimates are standardized by age and lifetime number of sexual partners.
  2. a Presumed protection against infection, assuming a counterfactual scenario in which each woman had been vaccinated before HPV exposure.