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Short Communication |
1 Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
3 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
4 Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA 94804, USA
Correspondence
Eric Delwart
delwarte{at}medicine.ucsf.edu
By using random PCR amplification, shotgun sequencing and sequence similarity searches, we analysed nucleic acids present in cell cultures inoculated with samples from unexplained cases of encephalitis. We identified a divergent human papillomavirus (HPV) sequence originating from a rectal swab. The full genome was amplified by inverse PCR and sequenced. The prototype of the sixth gammapapillomavirus species, HPV116, was not found in the patient's cerebrospinal fluid or respiratory secretions, nor in culture supernatants from other unexplained cases of encephalitis, indicating that its identification in an encephalitis patient was accidental.
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the complete genome sequence of HPV116 is FJ804072.
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