Genital warts are caused by a virus called human papillomavirus. Human papillomavirus is a DNA virus. The diameter of the virus particle is about 55 nanometers, arranged in an icosahedron, containing double-stranded circular DNA , surrounded by a capsid composed of two proteins. Although scientists discovered as early as 1907 that the pathogen causing warts is papillomavirus, the research progress on it is very slow because papillomavirus cannot grow and reproduce in cells outside the body like bacteria. It was not until the 1970s that the in-depth research on papillomavirus was accelerated with the development of molecular biology technology. Now, preventive and therapeutic vaccines for genital warts and the carcinogenic mechanism of papillomavirus have become research hotspots at home and abroad.
Can genital warts heal on their own?
Generally speaking, if genital warts are not treated, they are difficult to disappear on their own, and they will grow ...