HPV can infect normal skin.

Dr. Aubrey Foster
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2025-05-23 11:53:01
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HPV can infect normal skin for the following reasons: 1. The main characteristic of HPV is that it has tropism for skin and mucosa, that is, it is easy to infect certain parts of skin or mucosa. HPV has 200 subtypes, different subtypes, and different tropism for different parts of skin or mucosa. 2. Different subtypes of HPV virus cause proliferation on different parts of skin and mucosa.