Publications
| epithelial-mesenchymal interactions. | 1967 | 4292181 | |
| jc virus type 2b is found more frequently in brain tissue of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy patients than in urine from controls. | previous studies have shown that strains of human polyomavirus jc (jcv) of asian origin (type 2) are much more highly represented in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml) brain than would be expected from their frequency of excretion in urine samples of a comparable control group. the present studies were designed to test whether one subtype of type 2 was preferentially elevated. | 1998 | 10195243 |
| asymptomatic primary merkel cell polyomavirus infection among adults. | merkel cell polyomavirus (mcv) is a recently discovered virus that causes 80% of merkel cell carcinomas. we examined data for 564 gay/bisexual male participants >18 years of age in the multicenter aids cohort study in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, and found that 447 (79.3%) were mcv-antibody positive at initial enrollment. of the 117 mcv-seronegative men, 31 subsequently seroconverted over a 4-year follow-up period, corresponding to a 6.6% annual conversion rate. mcv immunoglobulin g levels rem ... | 2011 | 21801612 |