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.
Keywords: Cutavirus; bufavirus; cancer; human; malignant melanoma; metagenomics; protoparvovirus; sequencing; viruses.