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SUBMITTER: Qi D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5658932 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qi Dunwu D Shan Tongling T Liu Zhijian Z Deng Xutao X Zhang Zhihe Z Bi Wenlei W Owens Jacob Robert JR Feng Feifei F Zheng Lisong L Huang Feng F Delwart Eric E Hou Rong R Zhang Wen W
Virology journal 20171027 1
<h4>Background</h4>Polyomaviruses infect a wide variety of mammalian and avian hosts with a broad spectrum of outcomes including asymptomatic infection, acute systemic disease, and tumor induction.<h4>Methods</h4>Viral metagenomics and general PCR methods were used to detected viral nucleic acid in the samples from a diseased and healthy giant pandas.<h4>Results</h4>A novel polyomavirus, the giant panda polyomavirus 1 (GPPyV1) from the nasal cavity of a dead giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) ...[more]