Genital warts incubation period

As we all know, genital warts are a reproductive organ disease, which is a sexually transmitted disease. In layman's terms, it is a disease caused by sexual uncleanness. It is a reproductive disease that is common among men. So why do men get genital warts? Moreover, genital warts usually have a certain incubation period, that is, the patient will not show symptoms immediately after the disease occurs, and may not show symptoms until many years later. So what are the symptoms of genital warts during the incubation period?

Latent condyloma acuminatum is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. The main types are HPV1, 2, 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33 and 35. Among them, long-term infection with HPV16 and 18 may be related to the occurrence of cervical cancer in women. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA virus with a small molecule (55nm in diameter) and belongs to the Papovavirus family biologically. There are more than one hundred known genotypes of human papillomavirus, of which more than thirty can infect the skin and mucous membranes of human reproductive organs, causing various diseases. Genital warts are one of the infectious diseases that are under key control in my country. Although my country's strategies for preventing and controlling genital warts have achieved remarkable results in recent years, in clinical treatment and prevention, both doctors and patients do not have a comprehensive, systematic and accurate understanding of this disease and the various clinical symptoms it causes, which often leads to some deviations or even errors in the prevention and treatment process.

It takes some time from the time HPV infects human skin and mucous membranes to the time when genital warts lesions appear . This period of time is called the incubation period of genital warts. The length of the incubation period of genital warts varies from person to person. Some people have a short incubation period, while others have a longer incubation period. Usually, lesions appear in reproductive tract cells three months after HPV infection, while in other parts of the body generally between 3 weeks and 8 months after infection. Some observations suggest that the incubation period of genital warts cannot be estimated because some lesions appear several years after HPV infection. According to a survey, the incubation period of genital warts is 3 weeks to 8 months, with an average of 3 months. Most clinical observations report that the incubation period of genital warts is generally about 3 months, with the shortest incubation period being 3 to 4 weeks and the longest being about 8 to 12 months. Some scholars believe that infants infected with HPV during pregnancy are unlikely to have genital warts until the age of 2 years old, but 57% of children are diagnosed with laryngeal papilloma at the age of 2 years. The author has seen a case in which the female sexual partner of a male patient with genital warts developed genital warts at the vaginal opening 2 weeks after having sexual intercourse with him. Another male patient in the author's case developed the disease one and a half years after having sexual intercourse with a female patient with genital warts.

In addition , among the author's cases of genital warts, the latent period of genital warts could be clearly identified in 476 cases, including 243 males and 233 females. Among males, 8 cases had an incubation period of 1 month, 58 cases had 2 months, 68 cases had 3 months, 4 cases had 4 months, 12 cases had 5 months, 17 cases had 6 months, 8 cases had 7 months, 12 cases had 12 months, and 1 case had 1 year and 3 months; among females, 24 cases had an incubation period of 1 month, 62 cases had 2 months, 65 cases had 3 months, 49 cases had 4 months, 15 cases had 5 months, 8 cases had 6 months, 3 cases had 7 months, 2 cases had 8 months, 1 case had 9 months, 1 case had 16 months, 2 cases had 11 months, and 1 case had 12 months. The above survey results further confirmed that the incubation period of genital warts is mostly 2 to 4 months, accounting for 73.380%. The above results also show that the incubation period is different between men and women, such as the incubation period of women is generally shorter, and the incubation period of men is longer than that of women. The authors also observed that the incubation period of genital warts in men and women is significantly related to the patient's local environment. For example, the incubation period of genital warts is short in those with poor local hygiene, humidity, and a lot of secretions, and vice versa.

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