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Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the causing agent of warts or papillomas on the exposed skin or the skin around genitalia in human beings. A wart is a growth of epithelium of skin. Papillomas are sexually transmitted infections and cause different types of cancers in the reproductive systems of the sexual partner.

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