Talk:Bovine papillomavirus

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Work in progress. In particular, I intend to expand the 'Associations with cancer' & 'Vaccines' sections Espresso Addict 04:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BPV in hamsters?!

Even as a work in progress this article is great! I'm a papillomavirus aficionado and I learned new things. Is there a reference for BPV-1 and -2 infection of rabbits, hamsters and mice? Retroid 22:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I've admired your sterling work on the HPV and papillomavirus pages. This is on my TBD list to expand, but I keep being distracted by easier tasks.

I don't have a direct ref to the rabbits &c infection; it's mentioned in passing in the Papillomavirus chapters of both Fields Virology (3rd edn) (Shah & Howley) and Richman et al. Clinical Virology (2nd edn) (Bonnez). The latter references the review Leigh IM et al. Role of human papillomaviruses in cutaneous and oral manifestations of immunosuppression. J AIDS (1999) 21: S49-S57 (PMID: 10430219), but I don't have access to that to get hold of the primary reference. Espresso Addict 23:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll shove in a reference to Fields as a cover all for now, and if I unearth the original source change it. Espresso Addict 23:49, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Found (and added) one ref for hamsters and mice vs unknown BPV (probably BPV1). I guess in a way it's not totally unexpected. Now that I read a little about it I'm remembering that compared to other PVs, BPV1 is basically freakish in its breadth of tropism. I wonder why the BPV vs mouse challenge technique never caught on.