title: Association between betapapillomavirus seropositivity and keratinocyte carcinoma-prospects for prophylactic vaccination?
abstract: In this issue, Genders et al. (2015) demonstrate in a cohort of organ transplant recipients that betapapillomavirus seropositivity around transplantation significantly increases the risk of developing keratinocyte carcinomas. These results further substantiate an etiologic role of betapapillomaviruses in skin cancer and raise prospects of anti-viral immunotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: herbert.pfister@uk-koeln.de.
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pfister
mesh_terms: D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D052686:Betapapillomavirus / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D066027:Transplant Recipients
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral