2010-11-03Zeitschriftenartikel
African great apes are naturally infected with polyomaviruses closely related to Merkel cell polyomavirus
Leendertz, Fabian; Scuda, Nelly; Cameron, Kenneth; Kidega, Tonny; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Leendertz, Siv Aina J.; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel; Boesch, Christophe; Calvignac, Sébastien; Ehlers, Bernhard
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 ...