Infectious Agents and Cancer

Table 2 Overall and type-specific prevalence of PyVs in scrapings from healthy-looking skin (HS) and actinic keratosis (AK) of 242 AK patients

From: Prevalence of 13 polyomaviruses in actinic keratosis and matched healthy skin samples of immunocompetent individuals

PyV type	PyV-positive
	n (%)
	HS	AK	p value^a
	n = 242	n = 242	p value^a
Any PyV	217 (89.7)	229 (94.6)	0.04
MCPyV	211 (87.2)	215 (88.8)	0.58
HPyV6	142 (58.7)	124 (51.2)	0.10
JCPyV	16 (6.6)	24 (9.9)	0.19
HPyV9	4 (1.7)	2 (0.8)	0.41
TSPyV	4 (1.7)	2 (0.8)	0.41
BKPyV	0 (0.0)	6 (2.5)	0.01
HPyV7	1 (0.4)	1 (0.4)	1.00
LIPyV	1 (0.4)	1 (0.4)	1.00
SV40	1 (0.4)	1 (0.4)	1.00
HPyV10, HPyV12, KIPyV, WUPyV	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	n.e

Significant differences are highlighted in bold
n.e., not estimable
^ap value for the comparison between scrapings from HS and AK lesions

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