“…In addition, reported methods based on PCR-Sanger sequencing generally require prior knowledge of the infecting HPV type since they use HPV type-specific primers for PCR [ 9 , 10 ]. These technical hurdles can be overcome by using massively parallel high-throughput sequencing (or NGS, next-generation sequencing) technologies, which allow sequencing of multiple HPV types and variants in clinical specimens and the identification of minority genetic variants in individual samples [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ]. Reported NGS-based methods for HPV detection and typing consisted either in deep sequencing of amplicons obtained from the amplification of highly conserved regions in HPV genome or in the unbiased metagenomics sequencing of whole DNA or RNA from biological samples.…”