African great apes are naturally infected with polyomaviruses closely related to Merkel cell polyomavirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 916-924

  Leendertz, Fabian H ^a   Scuda, Nelly ^a   Cameron, Kenneth N ^b,h   Kidega, Tonny ^c   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^c,d   Leendertz, Siv Aina J ^a,e   Couacy Hymann, Emmanuel ^f   Boesch, Christophe ^g   Calvignac, Sébastien ^a   Ehlers, Bernhard ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c BUDONGO CONSERVATION FIELD STATION   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^f LANADA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^h WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GORILLA; MERKEL CELL POLYOMA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYOMA VIRUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; GORILLA GORILLA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; POLYOMAVIRUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 78650672089     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01585-10     Document Type: Article

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