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Healthy skin of many animal species harbors papillomaviruses which are closely related to their human counterparts.

Journal of virology ·Vol. 76 ·No. 24 ·2002-12-00 ·Pages 12537-42

Antonsson A, Hansson BG

Abstract

Papillomaviruses associated with clinical symptoms have been found in many vertebrate species. In this study, we have used an L1 gene consensus PCR test designed to detect a broad spectrum of human skin papillomaviruses to analyze swab samples from healthy skin of 111 animals belonging to 19 vertebrate species. In eight of the species, papillomavirus DNA was found with the following prevalences: chimpanzees, 9 of 11 samples positive; gorillas, 3 of 4; long-tailed macaques, 14 of 16; spider monkeys, 2 of 2; ruffed lemurs, 1 of 2; cows, 6 of 10; European elks, 4 of 4; aurochs, 1 of 1. In total, 53 new putative animal papillomavirus types were found. The results show that skin papillomaviruses can be detected in healthy skin from many different animal species and are sufficiently related genetically to their human counterparts to be identified by a human skin papillomavirus primer set (FAP59 and FAP64).

MeSH Terms
Animals Base Sequence DNA, Viral/analysis Humans Molecular Sequence Data Papillomaviridae/classification,isolation & purification Phylogeny Skin/virology
Chemicals
DNA, Viral
Authors & Affiliations
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Antonsson Annika
Department of Medical Microbiology, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, SE-205 02 Malmö, Sweden.
Hansson Bengt Göran
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of virology
Abbr.
J Virol
ISSN
0022-538X
DOI
10.1128/jvi.76.24.12537-12542.2002
Published
2002-12-00
Pages
12537-42
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
0113724
PMCID
PMC136724
Subset
IM
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