SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* QIAGEN NV (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O QIAGEN NORTH AMERICAN HOLDINGS, INC. 19300 GERMANTOWN ROAD (Street) GERMANTOWN MD 20874 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 07/20/2007	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol DIGENE CORP [ DIGE ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	24,835,281	D(1)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. On July 26, 2007, QIAGEN N.V. (Nasdaq: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) announced that it had successfully completed its exchange offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Digene Corporation (Nasdaq: DIGE). The exchange offer expired at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, July 20, 2007. At the time the exchange offer closed, 23,270,298 shares, representing approximately 94.6%, of Digene's outstanding common stock, had been tendered. On July 26, 2007, QIAGEN N.V. accepted all tendered shares. On July 30, 2007, QIAGEN N.V. acquired 1,564,983 shares of common stock of Digene Corporation, representing all the remaining outstanding shares of Digene Corporation, as a result of the merger of Digene Corporation with and into Energy Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of QIAGEN N.V., pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger among QIAGEN N.V., QIAGEN North American Holdings, Inc., QIAGEN Merger Sub, LLC and Digene Corporation, dated as of June 3, 2007.

	/s/ Roland Sackers	07/30/2007
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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