Malawi polyomavirus (MWPyV) is a relatively recently described human polyomavirus that has been detected predominantly in ...

Human polyomaviruses are commonly found in the population and generally do not produce noticeable symptoms. However, one type of human polyomavirus, the Merkel cell polyomavirus, is known to cause a ...

The Merkel cell polyomavirus is the only human polyomavirus known to be associated with a rare skin cancer, known as Merkel cell carcinoma, according to a new study. The Merkel cell polyomavirus ...

In people with severely compromised immune systems, JC polyomavirus can trigger an untreatable, often fatal brain disease. An international research team has identified how virus mutations can ...

A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people, say researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The ...

Long term outcome of 135 high grade non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the head and neck (HN NHL) treated with high dose CHOP regimen and involved field radiotherapy No significant financial relationships to ...

Most often we think about cancer as developing from cells that acquire cancer-driving mutations, but there’s a subset of cancers driven by another culprit: viruses. To date, “seven human viruses have ...

A new method to screen tumor samples for the presence of any human polyomavirus has been created by a team of researchers. Their study found no evidence for the involvement of human polyomaviruses in ...