Our main focus on this site is to bring you info about the Canine Oral Papilloma Virus. Since there is so much confusion on this we suggest you visit the forum to see what others have to say about it and what they have found in there research.
Here is some basic info we have found on the net.
Papilloma (Papillomatosis)
Affiliation: Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: July 18, 2005
Introduction
Definition: A benign exophytic neoplastic proliferation of the squamous epithelium caused by infection with papillomavirus
Synonyms: warts or verruca vulgaris
Epidemiology and Etiology
* caused by a papovavirus, which is a double stranded DNA virus. Two different papovaviruses are thought to be present in the dog:
o Canine Oral Papilloma Virus (COPV)- responsible for the oral papilloma
o Canine Papilloma Virus (CPV)- responsible for the cutaneous and inverted papilloma
* occur most commonly in dogs less than 3 years of age
* does not show any sex predilection