Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2017)

Cutavirus in Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma

  • Sarah Mollerup,
  • Helena Fridholm,
  • Lasse Vinner,
  • Kristín Rós Kjartansdóttir,
  • Jens Friis-Nielsen,
  • Maria Asplund,
  • Jose A.R. Herrera,
  • Torben Steiniche,
  • Tobias Mourier,
  • Søren Brunak,
  • Eske Willerslev,
  • Jose M.G. Izarzugaza,
  • Anders J. Hansen,
  • Lars P. Nielsen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2302.161564
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 2
pp. 363 – 365

Abstract

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A novel human protoparvovirus related to human bufavirus and preliminarily named cutavirus has been discovered. We detected cutavirus in a sample of cutaneous malignant melanoma by using viral enrichment and high-throughput sequencing. The role of cutaviruses in cutaneous cancers remains to be investigated.

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