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Analysis of the long control region of bovine papillomavirus type 1 associated with sarcoids in equine hosts indicates multiple cross-species transmission events and phylogeographical structure.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Dec 2014
Trewby Hannah, Ayele Gizachew, Borzacchiello Giuseppe, Brandt Sabine, Campo M Saveria, Del Fava Claudia, Marais Johan, Leonardi Leonardo, Vanselow Barbara, Biek Roman, Nasir Lubna
Abstract excerpt
Papillomaviruses are a family of slowly evolving DNA viruses and their evolution is commonly linked to that of their host species. However, whilst bovine papillomavirus-1 (BPV-1) primarily causes warts in its natural host, the cow, it can also cause locally aggressive and invasive skin tumours in equids, known as sarcoids, and thus provides a rare contemporary example of cross-species transmission of a...
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