What are the common symptoms of hpv 16? there is currently no warts or lesions present?

There may be no symptoms. HPV 16 and 18 are commonly associated with cervical and vulvar cancer. Visit this site for info: https://www.everydayhealth.com/hpv/what-are-hpv-16-18/ Get HPV vaccine.

You can have this infection with no obvious symptoms with an initial contagious phase for a couple years. Then it will go dormant and may never cause problems or trigger the changes leading to cervical cancer years or decades later. Periodic pap smears will often detect any pre-cancerous changes long before cancer would occur. There are no associated warts or obvious lesions with this strain.