Merkel cell polyomavirus, a new oncogenic human virus?
None of the four human polymaviruses that were known in early 2008 – JC, BK, KI and WU – had been shown to cause cancer. The subsequent identification of a new polyomavirus associated with Merkel cell carcinoma demonstrates the type of evidence that is required to prove that a virus is oncogenic in humans. Merkel …
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