How often is it to get HPV only by touching the genitals?

The average incubation period, which begins immediately after the initial sexual contact with an infected person, is usually two to three months but can range from one to 20 months. However, when HPV is transmitted from one person to another, the virus infects the top layers of the skin and can remain inactive or latent for months or possibly years before warts or other signs of HPV infection appear. In couples that have not had sex partners for many years, the woman may develop an abnormal Pap smear because of previous contact.

I am not sure what test you are waiting on? A Pap test looks for abnormal cell changes that the virus may cause. It can take many years for cell changes to develop. A Pap test is not an HPV test. The approved HPV tests are standard of care for the woman 30 and older. Some doctor will ask that the second part of the pap HPV DNA testing if abnormal cell changes are seen. The HPV tests only screen for high risk HPV types of the cervix. No low risk HPV DNA is screened in our approved HPV test.

The HPV test or our Pap test does not collect any cells from the external or vulva area. The only way that we can be diagnosed with HPV of the external genital area is when a visible wart is seen. Many men and women carry the virus with no signs of visible warts.

It can take months to years for visible signs of a genital wart or abnormal cell changes of the cervix to develop.

Most HPV infections do not cause any pain. If you are having abdominal pain look to gastric,hormone issues, ovaries or fallopian tubes or other issues.

The virus sheds particles...these particles can be found on formites...formite transmission would be rare due to the virus particles that is shed needs the entry point of a micro-abrasion of the genital skin tissue.

HPV infects the skin when cells from a partner's HPV lesions gain access to tiny breaks in the skin that often occur during skin to skin contact or intercourse. HPV does not infect tissue that lies underneath the skin, nor does it infect blood or other body fluids.

After an average of 1 to 8 months (but up to years or decades) the HPV infected cells may start to grow abnormally as the virus begins to reproduce itself in large numbers. Whether this occurs at all, and if so, how it is manifested clinically, is largely the result of a complex interplay between the virus and individual immunity.

http://www.asccp.org/PracticeManagement/HPV/Natura...

there is evidence that digital-genital and oral-genital contact can result in the transmission of HPV, albeit at relatively low rates.

http://www.jfponline.com/Pages.asp?AID=7892&issue=...