Isolation of a Novel Beta-2 Human Papillomavirus from Skin
Author(s) -
Rosario N. Brancaccio,
Alexis Robitaille,
Sankhadeep Dutta,
Dana E. Rollison,
Massimo Tommasino,
Tarik Gheit
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
microbiology resource announcements
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.383
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2576-098X
DOI - 10.1128/mra.01628-18
Subject(s) - human papillomavirus , isolation (microbiology) , virology , beta (programming language) , human skin , biology , genome , genetics , computational biology , medicine , gene , microbiology and biotechnology , computer science , programming language
We report the complete genome characterization of a novel human papillomavirus (HPV) (ICB2) isolated from a skin swab. The L1 region of HPV ICB2 shares 87.9% nucleotide similarity with its closest relative, HPV37, and thus constitutes a novel human betapapillomavirus.
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