| discovery of a novel polyomavirus in acute diarrheal samples from children. | polyomaviruses are small circular dna viruses associated with chronic infections and tumors in both human and animal hosts. using an unbiased deep sequencing approach, we identified a novel, highly divergent polyomavirus, provisionally named mx polyomavirus (mxpyv), in stool samples from children. the ∼5.0 kb viral genome exhibits little overall homology (<46% amino acid identity) to known polyomaviruses, and, due to phylogenetic variation among its individual proteins, cannot be placed in any e ... | 2012 | 23166671 |