Reply to "Contamination of SVG p12 cells with BK polyomavirus occurred after deposit in the American type culture collection"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Metabolic and Renal Research Group, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Christine.rinaldo@unn.no.
² Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
³ Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Medical Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
⁴ Transplantation & Clinical Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Comment

Christine Hanssen Rinaldo et al. J Virol. 2014 Nov.

. 2014 Nov;88(21):12930.

doi: 10.1128/JVI.02153-14.

¹ Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Metabolic and Renal Research Group, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Christine.rinaldo@unn.no.
² Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
³ Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Medical Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
⁴ Transplantation & Clinical Virology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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The human fetal glial cell line SVG p12 contains infectious BK polyomavirus.
Henriksen S, Tylden GD, Dumoulin A, Sharma BN, Hirsch HH, Rinaldo CH. Henriksen S, et al. J Virol. 2014 Jul;88(13):7556-68. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00696-14. Epub 2014 Apr 23. J Virol. 2014. PMID: 24760884 Free PMC article.
Contamination of SVG p12 cells with BK polyomavirus occurred after deposit in the American Type Culture Collection.
Ferenczy MW, Major EO. Ferenczy MW, et al. J Virol. 2014 Nov;88(21):12928-9. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01600-14. J Virol. 2014. PMID: 25288626 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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