Merkel cell polyomavirus sequences are frequently detected in nonmelanoma skin cancer of immunosuppressed patients

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 356-361

  Kassem, Ahmad ^a   Technau, Kristin ^a   Kurz, Anna Kordelia ^a   Pantulu, Deepa ^a   Löning, Marie ^a   Kayser, Gian ^a   Stickeler, Elmar ^a   Weyers, Wolfgang ^b   Diaz, Carlos ^b   Werner, Martin ^a   Nashan, Dorothee ^a   Zur Hausen, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Merkel cell polyoma virus (MCPyV); Nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC)

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BOWEN DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERKEL CELL; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VIRUS LOAD; GENETICS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 67349089708     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.24323     Document Type: Article

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