| isolation and characterization of the first american bottlenose dolphin papillomavirus: tursiops truncatus papillomavirus type 2. | a novel papillomavirus (pv) was isolated from a genital condyloma of a free-ranging bottlenose dolphin inhabiting the coastal waters of charleston harbor, sc, usa: tursiops truncatus papillomavirus type 2 (ttpv2). this novel virus represents the first isolated north american cetacean pv and the first american bottlenose dolphin pv. after the viral genome was cloned, sequenced and characterized genetically, phylogenetic analyses revealed that ttpv2 is most similar to the only published cetacean p ... | 2006 | 17098971 |