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Diversity of human papillomaviruses in skin lesions.
Virology - 1 Dec 2013
Ekström Johanna, Mühr Laila Sara Arroyo, Bzhalava Davit, Söderlund-Strand Anna, Hultin Emilie, Nordin Peter, Stenquist Bo, Paoli John, Forslund Ola, Dillner Joakim
Abstract excerpt
Pools of frozen biopsies from patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (n=29) actinic keratosis (AK) (n=31), keratoacanthoma (n=91) and swab samples from 84 SCCs and 91 AKs were analysed with an extended HPV general primer PCR and high-throughput sequencing of amplimers. We found 273 different HPV isolates (87 known HPV types, 139 previously known HPV sequences (putative types) and 47 sequences from novel...
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