Prevalence and Concordance of Cutaneous Beta Human Papillomavirus Infection at Mucosal and Cutaneous Sites

“…Beta HPV types are subdivided into five different species, beta-1, beta-2, beta-3, beta-4, and beta-5 (1). Beta-1 and beta-2 HPVs are the most prevalent types in the skin, whereas the other species are rarely detected in the skin and comprise very few of the HPV types, i.e., beta-3 (n ϭ 4), beta-4 (n ϭ 1), and beta-5 (n ϭ 2) (13).…”