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SUBMITTER: Sauvage V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147908 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sauvage Virginie V Cheval Justine J Foulongne Vincent V Gouilh Meriadeg Ar MA Pariente Kevin K Manuguerra Jean Claude JC Richardson Jennifer J Dereure Olivier O Lecuit Marc M Burguiere Ana A Caro Valérie V Eloit Marc M
Journal of virology 20110601 15
We have identified in a skin swab sample from a healthy donor a new virus that we have named human gyrovirus (HGyV) because of its similarity to the chicken anemia virus (CAV), the only previously known member of the Gyrovirus genus. In particular, this virus encodes a homolog of the CAV apoptin, a protein that selectively induces apoptosis in cancer cells. By PCR screening, HGyV was found in 5 of 115 other nonlesional skin specimens but in 0 of 92 bronchoalveolar lavages or nasopharyngeal aspir ...[more]