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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 6(15), p. 960-962, 2009

DOI: 10.3201/eid1506.081463

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Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Strains in Patients with Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Journal article published in 2009 by Antoine Touze, Julien Gaitan, Annabel Maruani, Emmanuelle Le Bidre, Emmanuelle Le Bidre, Angélique Doussinaud, Christine Clavel, Anne Durlach, François Aubin, Serge Guyétant, Gérard Lorette, Pierre Coursaget
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Abstract

We investigated whether Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) patients in France carry Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) and then identified strain variations. All frozen MCC specimens and 45% of formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded specimens, but none of the non-MCC neuroendocrine carcinomas specimens, had MCPyV. Strains from France and the United States were similar.