Table 1

SV40 nucleic acid detection in human samples
Country
 Positive reports on SV40 nucleic acids
 Negative reports on SV40 nucleic acids
 SV40 detection at 0% cut-off level
 SV40 detection at 10% cut-off level
Austria
[21,22]
 -
 -
Belgium
 [38,39]
 [40,41]
 +
 +
Finland
[19,23]
 -
 -
France
 [42]
 [41,43]
 +
 +
Germany West
 [44-51]
 [52-54]
 +
 +
Germany East
 [55]
+
 +
Hungary
 [51]
+
 +
Italy
 [14,17,47,56-70]a
 [71-73]
 +
 +
Spain
 [74] low positive
 [71,75]b
 +
 -
Sweden
 [76]
+
 +
Switzerland
 [77] data also presented in [23]
+
 +
Turkey
[20,24]
 -
 -
United Kingdomc
 [78-81]
 [82-85]
 +
 +
Total number of studies
 37
 18

Percent cut-off level refers to percentage of SV40-positive human tissue samples in all samples tested in a country.

aHealthy subjects were tested in [70].

bOne study [75] contained only uterine cervix carcinoma samples.

cPleural cancer mortality data were available only for England and Scotland, but not for the entire U.K., therefore the U.K. was excluded from further statistical analysis.

Leithner et al. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2006 1:44   doi:10.1186/1750-1172-1-44