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SUBMITTER: Touze A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2727338 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Touzé Antoine A Gaitan Julien J Maruani Annabel A Le Bidre Emmanuelle E Doussinaud Angélique A Clavel Christine C Durlach Anne A Aubin François F Guyétant Serge S Lorette Gérard G Coursaget Pierre P
Emerging infectious diseases 20090601 6
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. ...[more]