Characterization of human papillomavirus subtype 72b

Hanna Johansson; Evgenia Kravtchenko; Ola Forslund

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01320-14

Characterization of human papillomavirus subtype 72b

Genome Announc. 2014 Dec 18;2(6):e01320-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01320-14.

Authors

Hanna Johansson¹, Evgenia Kravtchenko¹, Ola Forslund²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden ola.forslund@med.lu.se.

Abstract

We report the characterization of human papillomavirus (HPV) subtype 72b of the genus Alphapapillomavirus isolated from an oral rinse sample of a healthy woman. The HPV72b L1 open reading frame (ORF) was 90.2% identical to that of HPV72, indicating a subtype close to the border of a novel HPV type.