Non-sexual transmission of human papillomavirus

EDITOR,—The editorial on cervical human papillomavirus infection by Jeffrey F Hines and colleagues1 failed to address a problem which we have recently encountered and which is probably more widespread than its neglect in the literature would suggest. On the basis of a cervical biopsy which histologically showed mild koilocytosis only, a patient was advised that she had a wart virus infection of the cervix which must have been acquired sexually. She was in considerable distress as both she and her …