Volume 15, Number 7—July 2009
Dispatch
WU Polyomavirus in Patients Infected with HIV or Hepatitis C Virus, Connecticut, USA, 2007
Michael A. Miller, Carla Weibel, David Ferguson, Marie L. Landry, and Jeffrey S. Kahn
Table 1
Primers used in PCR to detect WU polyomavirus in serum specimens, Connecticut, USA, 2007
| Primer | Name | Sequence (5′ → 3′) | Genome coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WU2F* | GCGCATCAAGAGGCACAGCTACTATTTC | 1377–1400 |
| 2 | WU2R* | GCGCCTAGCCTGTGAACTCCATC | 1510–1528 |
| 3 | WUoriFnest† | CTCATTTCCCCCTTTGTCAGGATG | 5011–5034 |
| 4 | WUoriRII† | CTTTCCGCTGGACTACAAAGGGC | 317–339 |
| 5 | WUoriF† | GTAAATTTCCCCAGCAGGTC | 5075–5095 |
| 6 | WUoriR† | CGGAAACTTTAAAAGGTCACAG | 153–174 |
*Primers used by Wattier et al. (6).
†The amplicon generated with these primer spans across nt 1 of the 5,229-bp circular virus genome.
