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SUBMITTER: Tolstov YL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3381535 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tolstov Yanis L YL Knauer Alycia A Chen Jian Guo JG Kensler Thomas W TW Kingsley Lawrence A LA Moore Patrick S PS Chang Yuan Y
Emerging infectious diseases 20110801 8
Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV) is a recently discovered virus that causes 80% of Merkel cell carcinomas. We examined data for 564 gay/bisexual male participants >18 years of age in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and found that 447 (79.3%) were MCV-antibody positive at initial enrollment. Of the 117 MCV-seronegative men, 31 subsequently seroconverted over a 4-year follow-up period, corresponding to a 6.6% annual conversion rate. MCV immunoglobulin G levels rem ...[more]