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. 2013 Oct 24;1(5):e00812-13.
doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00812-13.

A divergent variant of the eleventh human polyomavirus species, saint louis polyomavirus

Diana V Pastrana  1 , Peter C Fitzgerald, Giao Q Phan, Manish T Raiji, Philip M Murphy, David H McDermott, Daniel Velez, Valery Bliskovsky, Alison A McBride, Christopher B Buck
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A divergent variant of the eleventh human polyomavirus species, saint louis polyomavirus

Diana V Pastrana et al. Genome Announc. .

Abstract

Saint Louis polyomavirus (STLPyV) was recently discovered in human feces. Using random-primed rolling circle amplification combined with deep sequencing, we have found a divergent variant of STLPyV in a sanitized human skin wart specimen. The result strongly suggests that STLPyV directly infects humans and is not simply a dietary contaminant.

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