Inflammatory monocytes are a reservoir for merkel cell polyomavirus

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1146-1151

  Mertz, Kirsten D ^a,b   Junt, Tobias ^c   Schmid, Mirka ^a   Pfaltz, Madeleine ^a   Kempf, Werner ^a,d  

^a Kempf and Pfaltz Histological Diagnostics   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MERKEL CELL; MONOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT;

AGED; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PSORIASIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77949540145     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.392     Document Type: Article

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