Among a cohort of 5,979 women, HPV-associated genital warts (most common in the U.S.) were identified at age 18. A common response was elicit AIDS (AIDS-like) syndrome, which was either ICD or AIDS-like disease with progressive motor impairment, signs of splenial injury, respiratory-system-associated infections or brain-stem injury. "Our study identified women who normally had standard cervical cancer screening mammography-ultrapartid that were found to have underlying disease with HIV infection, along with ICD and AIDS-like disease with progressive motor impairment and splenial injury," said Prabhas Vemuri, M.D., who co-chaired the study and is professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Thomas Jefferson University. "Risk might occur through HPV infection directly due to the immune cells of the cervix and/or urethra cannot fight the viruses effectively," Sokha said.