Bandicoot papillomatosis carcinomatosis viruses are a pair of circular double-stranded DNA virus isolated from bandicoots (Perameles bougainville).
The genomes have features similar to viruses in the families Papillomaviridae and the Polyomaviridae.
[3] These viruses evolved via a recombination event between a papillomavirus and a polyomavirus between 10 million years ago and 50 million years ago.
[4] These viruses were isolated from and are thought to cause a progressively debilitating cutaneous and mucocutaneous papillomatosis and carcinomatosis syndrome.
[5] The lesions that occur in this disease are irregular thickenings and masses over the skin of the digits, body, pouch, and mucocutaneous junctions of the lips and conjunctiva.