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Molecular epidemiology of KI and WU polyomaviruses in healthy blood donors, south-eastern France.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 2013
Touinssi Mhammed, Galicher Vital, de Micco Philippe, Biagini Philippe
Abstract excerpt
The epidemiology of human polyomaviruses KI (KIPyV) and WU (WUPyV) in healthy populations is described poorly in the literature. The frequency of KIPyV and WUPyV viraemia was evaluated in a cohort of blood donors from south-eastern France. Plasma samples (n=640) were investigated for the presence of KIPyV/WUPyV DNA using a conserved real-time PCR detection system (VP2 gene). Three plasma samples (3/640; ∼0.5%)...
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