Double stranded Human Papilloma Virus enters the skin and passes its DNA to the proliferative
layer of the skin genome and as a result, undesirable proliferations will occur which appear as warts.
Inoculation without manifestation of warts may take from a week to 18 months or more. It means you
may have been infected with HPV but won't develop a visible wart until a much later time. This is the
reason why we ask our patients to return to the clinic for a re-evaluation after 6 months and 2 years to
make sure that they don't have a new wart. Some individuals are naturally resistant to HPV viruses and
don't become infected as easily as others. HPV warts are a contagious infection and spread easier by manipulation
such as scratching or shaving.
