• Prevalence of MCPyV, HPyV6, HPyV7 and TSPyV in Actinic Keratosis Biopsy Specimens 

      Prezioso, Carla; Brazzini, Gabriele; Passerini, Sara; Di Fabio, Carlotta; Cosio, Terenzio; Bernardini, Sergio; Campione, Elena; Moens, Ugo; Pietropaolo, Valeria; Ciotti, Marco (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-18)
      To date, 14 human polyomaviruses (HPyVs) have been identified using high-throughput technologies. Among them, MCPyV, HPyV6, HPyV7 and TSPyV present a skin tropism, but a causal role in skin diseases has been established only for MCPyV as a causative agent of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) and TSPyV as an etiological agent of Trichodysplasia Spinulosa (TS). In the search for a possible role for ...