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ArticleMicroorganisms2021

Detection of Quebec Polyomavirus DNA in Samples from Different Patient Groups.

Carla Prezioso, Marijke Van Ghelue, Valeria Pietropaolo, Ugo Moens

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Article in Microorganisms, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Carla PreziosoDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Marijke Van GhelueDepartment of Medical Genetics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health, University Hospital of North Norway, 9038 Tromsø, Norway.
Valeria PietropaoloDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1931-5462
Ugo MoensDepartment of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-5723-8886
Sapienza University of Rome · ITUiT The Arctic University of Norway · NOUniversity Hospital of North Norway · NO

Funding

Erna and Olav Aakre Foundation for Cancer Research A65285Italian Ministry of Health SG-2018-12366194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyomaviruses infect many species, including humans. So far, 15 polyomaviruses have been described in humans, but it remains to be established whether all of these are genuine human polyomaviruses. The most recent polyomavirus to be detected in a person is Quebec polyomavirus (QPyV), which was identified in a metagenomic analysis of a stool sample from an 85-year-old hospitalized man. We used PCR to investigate the presence of QPyV DNA in urine samples from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients (67 patients; 135 samples), multiple sclerosis patients (n = 35), HIV-positive patients (n = 66) and pregnant women (n = 65). Moreover, cerebrospinal fluid from patients with suspected neurological diseases (n = 63), nasopharyngeal aspirates from patients (n = 80) with respiratory symptoms and plasma samples from HIV-positive patients (n = 65) were examined. QPyV DNA was found in urine from 11 (16.4%), 10 (15.4%) and 5 (14.3%) SLE patients, pregnant women, and multiple sclerosis patients, respectively. No QPyV DNA could be detected in the other samples. Alignment with the only available QPyV sequence in the GenBank revealed amino acid substitutions in the HI-loop of capsid protein VP1 in 6/28 of the isolates. Our results show that QPyV viruria can occur, but whether it may cause clinical symptoms in the patients remains to be determined.

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cerebrospinal fluidHI-loopHIVmultiple sclerosisnasopharyngeal aspiratespregnant womensystemic lupus erythematosusurineVP1

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