Article
Presence of beta human papillomaviruses in nonmelanoma skin cancer from organ transplant recipients and immunocompetent patients in the West of Scotland.
The British journal of dermatology - 1 Jul 2009
Mackintosh L J, de Koning M N C, Quint W G V, Ter Schegget J, Morgan I M, Herd R M, Campo M S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) has been linked to cutaneous human papillomaviruses of the genus beta (betaPV). OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the presence of betaPV in NMSC biopsies from a group of Scottish skin cancer patients, both immunocompetent (IC) patients and immunosuppressed (IS) organ transplant recipients. METHODS: One hundred and twenty-one paraffin-embedded skin tumours (27 actinic...
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