Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2019)

No Evidence for Role of Cutavirus in Malignant Melanoma

  • Ulrike Wieland,
  • Steffi Silling,
  • Martin Hufbauer,
  • Cornelia Mauch,
  • Paola Zigrino,
  • Frank Oellig,
  • Alexander Kreuter,
  • Baki Akgül

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2508.190096
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 8
pp. 1600 – 1602

Abstract

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Cutavirus was previously found in cutaneous melanoma. We detected cutavirus DNA in only 2/185 melanoma biopsies and in 0/52 melanoma metastases from patients in Germany. Viral DNA was localized in the upper epidermal layers. Swab specimens from healthy skin were cutavirus positive for 3.8% (9/237) of immunocompetent and 17.1% (35/205) of HIV-positive men.

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