Human papillomaviruses are commonly found in normal skin of immunocompetent hosts

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 752-755

  Astori, Giuseppe ^a   Lavergne, Donna ^a   Benton, Claire ^b   Höckmayr, Birgit ^c   Egawa, Kiyofumi ^d   Garbe, Claus ^e   De Villiers, Ethel Michele ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c School of Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

HPV; Nonmelanoma skin cancer; Normal skin

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMODYSPLASIA VERRUCIFORMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MALE; MELANOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; WART VIRUS;

EID: 0031899349     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.1998.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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