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Virus-specific and anticellular antibodies in molluscum contagiosum

British Journal of Dermatology, 1979
Sera from patients with molluscum contagiosum showed a higher incidence of anticellular and fibrillar anticellular antibodies of IgM class as compared to sera from control subjects. Most patients with anticellular IgM antibodies also had molluscum contagiosum virus-specific antibodies.
P V, Shirodaria, R S, Matthews, M, Samuel   +2 more
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Structural characterization of the Molluscum contagiosum virus genome

Virology, 1977
Abstract The genome of Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) appears in an electron microscope as a linear, duplex DNA molecule having a mean contour length of 53.02 ± 1.87 μm. Vaccinia virus DNA, similarly processed and used for comparison, measures 53.03 ± 2.2 μm. The average molecular weight of MCV-DNA was calculated to be 118 × 106.
R P, Parr, J W, Burnett, C F, Garon
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Recent advances in molluscum contagiosum virus research

1997
Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) and variola virus (VAR) are the only two poxviruses that are specific for man. MCV causes skin tumors in humans and primarily in children and immunocompromised individuals. MCV is unable to replicate in tissue culture cells or animals. Recently, the DNA sequence of the 190 kbp MCV genome was reported by Senkevich et al.
J J, Bugert, G, Darai
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Analysis of molluscum contagiosum virus genomes isolated in Japan

Journal of Medical Virology, 1995
AbstractThe genomes of 477 Japanese strains of molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) were analyzed using an in‐gel digestion method with the restriction enzyme BamHI, and classified into four types, including a newly detected type (MCV type 4). All type 1 (MCV‐1) genomes examined so far in Japan showed a common difference from the genome of the MCV‐1 ...
J, Nakamura, Y, Muraki, M, Yamada, Y, Hatano, S, Nii   +4 more
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Molluscum contagiosum: new perspectives on an old virus

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 1999
Renewed interest in molluscum contagiosum virus has been stimulated by the availability of the entire genomic sequence and the identification of more than 160 putative genes, some of whose functions are now under analysis. Important findings have been generated by the recognition that certain viral proteins have anti-chemotactic and anti-apoptotic ...
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Molluscum Contagiosum and Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Archives of Dermatology, 1992
To the Editor.— The recent article in theArchivesby Smith et al 1 on molluscum contagiosum brings to light some interesting new information about a disease that is poorly understood and that has become one of the most common cutaneous manifestations of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1.
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New Method for the Assessment of Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Infectivity

2012
Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a poxvirus pathogenic for humans, replicates well in human skin in vivo, but not in vitro in standard monolayer cell cultures. In order to determine the nature of the replication deficiency in vitro, the MCV infection process in standard culture has to be studied step by step. The method described in this chapter uses
Subuhi, Sherwani, Niamh, Blythe, Laura, Farleigh, Joachim J, Bugert   +3 more
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Immune Evasion Strategies of Molluscum Contagiosum Virus

2015
Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) is the causative agent of molluscum contagiosum (MC), the third most common viral skin infection in children, and one of the five most prevalent skin diseases worldwide. No FDA-approved treatments, vaccines, or commercially available rapid diagnostics for MCV are available. This review discusses several aspects of this
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Molluscum Contagiosum Virus: Biology and Immune Response

Molluscum contagiosum virus is a poxvirus belonging to the Poxviridae family, which includes Orthopoxvirus, Parapoxvirus, Yantapoxvirus, Molluscipoxvirus, Smallpox virus, Cowpox virus and Monkeypox virus. MCV belongs to the genus Molluscipoxvirus and has a tropism for skin tissue.
Santacroce, Luigi, Magrone, Thea
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Molluscum Contagiosum Virus (Poxviridae)

2021
Joachim J. Bugert, Rosina Ehmann
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