A novel human papillomavirus sequence based on L1 general primers.

doi:10.1016/0168-1702(95)00011-e

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A novel human papillomavirus sequence based on L1 general primers.

Virus research - 1 May 1995

Togawa K, Rustgi A K

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Over 65 human papillomaviruses (HPVs) have been identified. The majority have been isolated on the basis of cloning systems in bacteria. Recently, general consensus or degenerate primers from the L1 region have been used in PCR to identify novel genotypes. In this fashion, we employed general pri...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Base Sequence
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Esophageal Neoplasms
Genes, Viral
Genotype
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Oncogene Proteins, Viral
Papillomaviridae
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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