Laboratory test and process
Samples are transported at room temperature to the diagnostic laboratory as part of the practice’s routine laboratory collection. HPV genotyping is carried out using Abbott HPV assays, which are able to give partial genotyping results to identify HPV16, HPV18, and HPV ‘Other’ (a combined result for the presence of 12 other high-risk HPV types: 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68) [