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Eileen M Geoghegan1, Nicole L Welch1, Michael J Yabsley2
1Lab of Cellular Oncology, CCR, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Genome Announcements
|July 1, 2017
Abstract:
Raccoon polyomavirus 1 (RacPyV1) is the suspected cause of an outbreak of fatal brain tumors among raccoons (Procyon lotor) in the western United States. Spleen samples from Georgia raccoons were screened for polyomaviruses. Although RacPyV1 was not detected, a previously unknown polyomavirus, which we designate RacPyV2, was identified and sequenced.

