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A member asked:

If my smear test came as "clear" can i still have hpv that causes genital wharts?

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Yes: Past exposure and infection with wart producing strains can be confirmed or excluded by blood tests that look specifically for those strains. The "smear" by itself is a simple way to look for cervical changes due to other HPV strains associated with cervical cancer (not wart strains).

Answered 5/15/2015

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