Merkel cell polyomavirus strains in patients with merkel cell carcinoma.

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.

SUBMITTER: Touze A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2727338 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature