From Stockholm to Malawi: Recent developments in studying human polyomaviruses

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 94, Issue PART3, 2013, Pages 482-496

  Feltkamp, Mariet C W ^a   Kazem, Siamaque ^a   van der Meijden, Els ^a   Lauber, Chris ^a   Gorbalenya, Alexander E ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; PROTEIN VP1; PROTEIN VP2; PROTEIN VP3; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; B LYMPHOTROPHIC POLYOMAVIRUS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUS 10; HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUS 6; HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUS 7; HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUS 9; KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE POLYOMAVIRUS; MALAWI POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; PILOMATRIXOMA; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TRICHODYSPLASIA SPINULOSA; TRICHODYSPLASIA SPINULOSA ASSOCIATED POLYOMAVIRUS; VIRAL SKIN DISEASE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY POLYOMAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALAWI; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SWEDEN; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84874091510     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.048462-0     Document Type: Review

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