Isolation of a Novel Beta-2 Human Papillomavirus from Skin

Rosario N Brancaccio; Alexis Robitaille; Sankhadeep Dutta; Dana E Rollison; Massimo Tommasino; Tarik Gheit

doi:10.1128/MRA.01628-18

Isolation of a Novel Beta-2 Human Papillomavirus from Skin

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Feb 28;8(9):e01628-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01628-18. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Authors

Rosario N Brancaccio¹, Alexis Robitaille¹, Sankhadeep Dutta¹, Dana E Rollison², Massimo Tommasino¹, Tarik Gheit¹

Affiliations

¹ Infections and Cancer Biology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
² Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Abstract

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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