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Meffert and Anthony¹ in the March issue of the ARCHIVES proposed that the established dogma about human papillomavirus type 7 (HPV-7) as the "butcher's wart" virus should be reassessed since HPV-7 is not the only HPV type found in butchers and meat handlers, and since HPV-2 is even the most common type.

We found HPV-7–induced warts in one third of the hand warts in butchers, besides all other types of HPVs responsible for common and plane warts (HPV-1, HPV-2, HPV-3, and HPV-4).² The most frequent infection was with HPV-2 and HPV-2–related viruses,² as also found usually in warts of immunocompetent and immunosuppressed population, in both children and adults.³ From the restriction patterns of viral DNA published in a 1981 article by Orth et al,² it can be deducted that viruses considered as HPV-2–related (HPV-2c) or HPV-3–related (HPV-3f, HPV-3g) corresponded to HPV-27, HPV-10, and HPV-28, respectively. Human papillomavirus type 7 was . . . [Full Text of this Article]