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. 2012 May;201(2):245-8.
doi: 10.1007/s00430-011-0215-0. Epub 2011 Sep 6.

No evidence for a role of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus and BK virus in prostate cancer of German patients

Baki Akgül  1 , David Pfister, Ruth Knüchel, Axel Heidenreich, Ulrike Wieland, Herbert Pfister
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No evidence for a role of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus and BK virus in prostate cancer of German patients

Baki Akgül et al. Med Microbiol Immunol. 2012 May.

Abstract

Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer in men. Controversial data exist concerning the role of BKPyV and the xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related gammaretrovirus (XMRV) in prostate cancer development. We therefore assessed the association between prostate cancer and viral infections. We could detect BKPyV in only 1 out of 85 prostate cancer samples, whereas none of the tissue samples showed evidence for XMRV positivity. Lack of detection of BKPyV and XMRV in prostate cancer tissues suggests that these viruses do not play a role in the pathogenesis of this type of cancer.

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