African Great Apes Are Naturally Infected with Polyomaviruses Closely Related to Merkel Cell Polyomavirus

The oncogenic Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) infects humans worldwide, but little is known about the occurrence of viruses related to MCPyV in the closest phylogenetic relatives of humans, great apes. We analyzed samples from 30 wild chimpanzees and one captive gorilla and identified two new group...

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Hauptverfasser: Leendertz, Fabian H., Scuda, Nelly, Cameron, Kenneth N., Kidega, Tonny, Zuberbühler, Klaus, Leendertz, Siv Aina J., Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel, Boesch, Christophe, Calvignac, Sébastien, Ehlers, Bernhard
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2011
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Genetic Diversity and Evolution
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020012/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21047967
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01585-10
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