She studied the viral etiology of cancer and identified the murine polyomavirus.

A novel variant of finch polyomavirus has been identified and sequenced from a diseased white-headed munia (Lonchura maja).

Patients with the rare primary immunodeficiency due to dedicator of cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) mutations commonly suffer from atopic disorders, recalcitrant viral infections, potential malignancy, and early mortality. Even in absence skin lesions, DOCK8-deficient has been previously shown have an abundant virome. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is potentially curative for this disease...

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We report here the complete genome sequence of a WU polyomavirus (WUPyV) isolate, NM040708, collected from a patient with an acute respiratory infection in New Mexico. The double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) genome of NM040708 is 5,229 bp in length and differs from the WUPyV reference with accession no. NC_009539 by 6 nucleotides and 2 amino acids.

Human polyomavirus infection, which can be detected morphologically on Pap-stained routine urine cytology specimens, is most commonly encountered in immunocompromised patients and is a well-described complication of renal transplantation. We present a case of an immunocompetent 5-year-old boy with a sudden onset of dysuria and hematuria due to a self-limited polyomavirus urinary tract infection...

WU polyomavirus (WUPyV) was detected in a bone marrow transplant recipient with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome who died in 2001. Crystalline lattices of polyomavirus-like particles were observed in the patient's lung by electron microscopy. WUPyV was detected in the lung and other tissues by real-time quantitative PCR and identified in the lung and trachea by immunohistochemistry. A...

Twenty-five young budgerigars that died with the complaints of abdominal distension and crop swelling were examined pathologically. One hundred and twelve, 8-19-day-old chicks died at the same aviary with the same clinical symptoms over 16 months; the morbidity and mortality rate was 100%. Ascites, hydropericardium, crop and oesophagus ulcers, cardiomegaly, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly and focal ...

We have compared the effect of the polyomavirus cis-acting transcriptional enhancer and the adenovirus trans-acting E1A gene on expression of RNA polymerase III-transcribed genes (the adenovirus VAI gene and a bacterial tRNA gene) using DNA transfection and transient expression assays. The polyomavirus enhancer has little effect upon transcription of the VAI gene by RNA polymerase III in any ce...