WHAT IS HPV? Human pappiloma virus is double stranded dna virus that infect the epithelial cells of skin and mucous. The epithelial surface includes all areas covered by skin and/or mucous such as the cervix,vagina,penis,anus,mouth,throat,tounge and tonsil. Reffered to papillomavirus as certain type may cause bening, skinwarts or papilloma. Human pappiloma virus is the most commom viral infection of reproductive tract. Hpv is sexually transmitted but penetrative sex is not required for transmission. Skin to skin genital contact is a well recogonised mode of transmission. There are many type of hpv and many do not cause problemes. Hpv infection usually clear up without any intervention within a few month after acquisition and about 90% clear within 2 year. A all proportion of infection with certain types of hpv can persist and progress to cervical cancer. PATHOGENSIS Establishment of HPV infection requires damage to the surface epithelium, which allows the virus access to the immature cells in the basal layer epithelium. Normally mature squamous cells are arrested in the g1 phase of the cell cycle but they continue to actively progress throughthe cell cycle when infected with HPV which uses the host cell dna synthesis machinery to replicate its own genome.Normal cells have basal epithelial cells, intermediate cells, superficial cells. HPV doesn’t infect superficial cell there should be break in surface epithelium so it has an acess to the basal cells. So once it infect the basal cell the dna of the hpv enter in the nucleus and it doesn’t integrate into the host chromosome it remain as a circular episomal dna . as the cell proliferate it also proliferate and it produces viral protein E1,E2. AS the proliferation increases it produces E1,E2,E3,E4,E5,E6,E7. Then finally it start producing L1 and L2 protein this re capsid protein . once they are produced the viral assembly occurs and the virions are released outside