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SUBMITTER: Siebrasse EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3457274 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Siebrasse Erica A EA Reyes Alejandro A Lim Efrem S ES Zhao Guoyan G Mkakosya Rajhab S RS Manary Mark J MJ Gordon Jeffrey I JI Wang David D
Journal of virology 20120627 19
We have discovered a novel polyomavirus present in multiple human stool samples. The virus was initially identified by shotgun pyrosequencing of DNA purified from virus-like particles isolated from a stool sample collected from a healthy child from Malawi. We subsequently sequenced the virus' 4,927-bp genome, which has been provisionally named MW polyomavirus (MWPyV). The virus has genomic features characteristic of the family Polyomaviridae but is highly divergent from other members of this fam ...[more]