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SUBMITTER: Calleja-Macias IE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1091730 | biostudies-literature | 2005 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Calleja-Macias Itzel E IE Kalantari Mina M Allan Bruce B Williamson Anna-Lise AL Chung Lap-Ping LP Collins Robert J RJ Zuna Rosemary E RE Dunn S Terence ST Ortiz-Lopez Rocio R Barrera-Saldaña Hugo A HA Cubie Heather A HA Cuschieri Kate K Villa Luisa L LL Bernard Hans-Ulrich HU
Journal of virology 20050501 10
A human papillomavirus (HPV) type is defined as an HPV isolate whose L1 gene sequence is at least 10% different from that of any other type, while a subtype is 2 to 10% different from any HPV type. In order to analyze the phylogeny behind the subtype definition, we compared 49 isolates of HPV type 44 (HPV-44) and its subtype HPV-55, previously misclassified as a separate type, and 41 isolates of the subtype pair HPV-68a and -b, sampled from cohorts in four continents. The subtypes of each pair a ...[more]