Broad Surveys of DNA Viral Diversity Obtained through Viral Metagenomics of Mosquitoes

Terry Fei Fan Ng; Dana L. Willner; Yan Wei Lim; Robert Schmieder; Betty Chau; Christina Nilsson; Simon Anthony; Yijun Ruan; Forest Rohwer; Mya Breitbart

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020579

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Broad Surveys of DNA Viral Diversity Obtained through Viral Metagenomics of Mosquitoes

Terry Fei Fan Ng,

Current address: Blood Systems Research Institute and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
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Dana L. Willner,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Yan Wei Lim,

Affiliations Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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Robert Schmieder,

Affiliation Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Betty Chau,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Christina Nilsson,

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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Simon Anthony,

Affiliation Wildlife Disease Labs, San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Yijun Ruan,

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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Forest Rohwer,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Mya Breitbart

* E-mail: mya@marine.usf.edu

Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
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Broad Surveys of DNA Viral Diversity Obtained through Viral Metagenomics of Mosquitoes

Terry Fei Fan Ng,
Dana L. Willner,
Yan Wei Lim,
Robert Schmieder,
Betty Chau,
Christina Nilsson,
Simon Anthony,
Yijun Ruan,
Forest Rohwer,
Mya Breitbart

Published: June 6, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020579

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Human papillomavirus could be drawn from blood

Posted by TerryNg on 10 Jun 2011 at 21:30 GMT

In addition to acquiring papillomaviruses from human skin, another possible explanation is that mosquitoes draw blood that contains papillomaviruses, as studies have discovered several types of cutaneous papillomaviruses in human blood.

Chen, A.C.-H., et al., Human papillomavirus DNA detected in peripheral blood samples from healthy Australian male blood donors. Journal of Medical Virology, 2009. 81(10): p. 1792-1796.

Bodaghi, S., et al., Could Human Papillomaviruses Be Spread through Blood? J. Clin. Microbiol., 2005. 43(11): p. 5428-5434.

No competing interests declared.

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