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Journal of Virology, December 2002, p. 12537-12542, Vol. 76, No. 24
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.24.12537-12542.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Healthy Skin of Many Animal Species Harbors Papillomaviruses Which Are Closely Related to Their Human Counterparts

Annika Antonsson and Bengt Göran Hansson*

Department of Medical Microbiology, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Received 8 July 2002/ Accepted 11 September 2002

Papillomaviruses associated with clinical symptoms have been found in many vertebrate species. In this study, we have used an L1 gene consensus PCR test designed to detect a broad spectrum of human skin papillomaviruses to analyze swab samples from healthy skin of 111 animals belonging to 19 vertebrate species. In eight of the species, papillomavirus DNA was found with the following prevalences: chimpanzees, 9 of 11 samples positive; gorillas, 3 of 4; long-tailed macaques, 14 of 16; spider monkeys, 2 of 2; ruffed lemurs, 1 of 2; cows, 6 of 10; European elks, 4 of 4; aurochs, 1 of 1. In total, 53 new putative animal papillomavirus types were found. The results show that skin papillomaviruses can be detected in healthy skin from many different animal species and are sufficiently related genetically to their human counterparts to be identified by a human skin papillomavirus primer set (FAP59 and FAP64).

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Malmö University Hospital, SE-205 02 Malmö, Sweden. Phone: 46 40 331365. Fax: 46 40 337312. E-mail: bengt-goran.hansson{at}mikrobiol.mas.lu.se.

Journal of Virology, December 2002, p. 12537-12542, Vol. 76, No. 24
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.24.12537-12542.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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