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Identification of MW polyomavirus, a novel polyomavirus in human stool.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2012
Siebrasse Erica A, Reyes Alejandro, Lim Efrem S, Zhao Guoyan, Mkakosya Rajhab S, Manary Mark J, Gordon Jeffrey I, Wang David
Abstract excerpt
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...
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