Researchers from the Robert Koch-Institute, in cooperation with the Charité University clinic in Berlin, have presented additional results of the self-sampling study with the Delphi Screener amongst German women between the age of 20 and 25.  At the ECCMID (European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) 2013 in Berlin, Yvonne Deleré and Cornelis Remschmidt presented two posters. One poster discussed the risk factors of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infections for young women. The other poster reported HPV prevalence. The outcome of the analysis confirms the validity of the samples obtained with the Delphi Screener in the field of cervical cancer screening.

Earlier results of the pilot study have been published in 2011 by Dr. Deleré et al (Cervicovaginal Self-Sampling Is a Reliable Method for Determination of Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus Genotypes in Women Aged 20 to 30 Years (J. Clin. Microbiol. 2011, 49(10):3519)).