ArticleThe Journal of general virology2015
Hamburger polyomaviruses.
Article in The Journal of general virology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Investigation of Human and Animal Viruses in Water Matrices from a Rural Area in Southeastern Region of Brazil and Their Potential Use as Microbial Source-Tracking Markers.Food and environmental virology · 2023Article
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- Plerixafor for the Treatment of WHIM Syndrome.The New England journal of medicine · 2019Article
- A specific class of infectious agents isolated from bovine serum and dairy products and peritumoral colon cancer tissue.Emerging microbes & infections · 2019Article
- Metagenomic Discovery of 83 New Human Papillomavirus Types in Patients with Immunodeficiency.mSphere · 2018Article
- Characterization of BK Polyomaviruses from Kidney Transplant Recipients Suggests a Role for APOBEC3 in Driving In-Host Virus Evolution.Cell host & microbe · 2018Article
- Agnoprotein Is an Essential Egress Factor during BK Polyomavirus Infection.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- Identification of a Second Raccoon-Associated Polyomavirus.Genome announcements · 2017Article
- Human polyomavirus 6 and 7 are associated with pruritic and dyskeratotic dermatoses.Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2017Article
- Navigating Microbiological Food Safety in the Era of Whole-Genome Sequencing.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2016Review
- Role of Ultraviolet Radiation in Papillomavirus-Induced Disease.PLoS pathogens · 2016Article
- The Ancient Evolutionary History of Polyomaviruses.PLoS pathogens · 2016Article
- Complete Genome Sequence of Bovine Polyomavirus Type 1 from Aborted Cattle, Isolated in Belgium in 2014.Genome announcements · 2016Article
- Genome Sequence of Bovine Polyomavirus 1 Detected in a Salers Cow (Bos taurus) from Catalonia, Spain.Genome announcements · 2016Article
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Abstract
Epidemiological studies have suggested that consumption of beef may correlate with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. One hypothesis to explain this proposed link might be the presence of a carcinogenic infectious agent capable of withstanding cooking. Polyomaviruses are a ubiquitous family of thermostable non-enveloped DNA viruses that are known to be carcinogenic. Using virion enrichment, rolling circle amplification (RCA) and next-generation sequencing, we searched for polyomaviruses in meat samples purchased from several supermarkets. Ground beef samples were found to contain three polyomavirus species. One species, bovine polyomavirus 1 (BoPyV1), was originally discovered as a contaminant in laboratory FCS. A previously unknown species, BoPyV2, occupies the same clade as human Merkel cell polyomavirus and raccoon polyomavirus, both of which are carcinogenic in their native hosts. A third species, BoPyV3, is related to human polyomaviruses 6 and 7. Examples of additional DNA virus families, including herpesviruses, adenoviruses, circoviruses and gyroviruses were also detected either in ground beef samples or in comparison samples of ground pork and ground chicken. The results suggest that the virion enrichment/RCA approach is suitable for random detection of essentially any DNA virus with a detergent-stable capsid. It will be important for future studies to address the possibility that animal viruses commonly found in food might be associated with disease.
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