Cloning and Molecular Characterization of Novel Animal Papillomaviruses

Papillomaviruses represent a diverse group of species and tissue specific viruses which are important agents of disease, including some cancers. This thesis describes the cloning and molecular characterization of five new animal papillomaviruses: an equine cutaneous papillomavirus (EqPV); a canine oral papillomavirus associated with vaccine-induced carcinomas (COPV); an avian papillomavirus (PePV); an oral papillomavirus of domestic rabbits (ROPV); and the first papillomavirus isolated from a murine species, Micromys minutus, which is associated with carcinomas in the natural host (MmPV). In addition, the existence of two other papillomaviruses in genital lesions of a horse and a monkey was established.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Microbiology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• O'banion, Michael Kerry

• Biology, Microbiology

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8711841

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71183