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- Title
Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Strains in Patients with Merkel Cell Carcinoma.
- Authors
Touzé, Antoine; Gaitan, Julien; Maruani, Annabel; Le Bidre, Emmanuelle; Doussinaud, Angélique; Clavel, Christine; Durlach, Anne; Aubin, François; Guyétant, Serge; Lorette, Gérard; Coursaget, Pierre
- Abstract
We investigated whether Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) patients in France carry Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) and then identified strain variations. All frozen MCC specimens and 45% of formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded specimens, but none of the non-MCC neuroendocrine carcinomas specimens, had MCPyV. Strains from France and the United States were similar.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FRANCE; MERKEL cell carcinoma; MERKEL cells; POLYOMAVIRUSES; NEUROENDOCRINE tumors
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 6, p960
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1506.081463