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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Auteurs principaux: 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
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2011
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Genetic Diversity and Evolution
Accès en ligne: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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