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Treatment of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AGW<\/jats:styled-content> should be individualized and selected based on the number, size, morphology, location, and keratinization of warts, and whether they are new or recurrent. Different techniques can be used to treat <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AGW<\/jats:styled-content> including ablation, immunotherapy and other topical therapies. Combinations of these techniques are thought to be more effective at reducing <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AGW<\/jats:styled-content> recurrence than monotherapy. A simplified algorithm was created suggesting patients with 1\u20135 warts should be treated with ablation followed by immunotherapy. Patients with &gt;5 warts should use immunotherapy for 2\u00a0months followed by ablation and a second 2\u2010month course of immunotherapy. 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