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Letter to the Editor| Volume 71, ISSUE 2, P140-142, August 2013

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Recently discovered human polyomaviruses in lesional and non-lesional skin of patients with primary cutaneous T-cell lymphomas

      Recently, several new members of the polyomaviridae family have been identified [
      • Feng H.
      • Shuda M.
      • Chang Y.
      • Moore P.S.
      Clonal integration of a polyomavirus in human Merkel cell carcinoma.
      ,
      • Sauvage V.
      • Foulongne V.
      • Cheval J.
      • Ar Gouilh M.
      • Pariente K.
      • Dereure O.
      • et al.
      Human polyomavirus related to African green monkey lymphotropic polyomavirus.
      ,
      • Schowalter R.M.
      • Pastrana D.V.
      • Pumphrey K.A.
      • Moyer A.L.
      • Buck C.B.
      Merkel cell polyomavirus and two previously unknown polyomaviruses are chronically shed from human skin.
      ,
      • van der Meijden E.
      • Janssens R.W.
      • Lauber C.
      • Bouwes Bavinck J.N.
      • Gorbalenya A.E.
      • Feltkamp M.C.
      Discovery of a new human polyomavirus associated with trichodysplasia spinulosa in an immunocompromized patient.
      ] in human skin samples from immunocompromised or healthy individuals and in skin malignancies, including Merkel cell Carcinoma polyomavirus (MCPyV), human polyomaviruses 6 (HPyV6), 7 (HPyV7) and 9 (HPyV9), and the Trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated polyomavirus (TSPyV).

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