Interspecies transmission of simian foamy virus in a natural predator-prey system

Simian foamy viruses (SFV) are ancient retroviruses of primates and have coevolved with their host species for as many as 30 million years. Although humans are not naturally infected with foamy virus, infection is occasionally acquired through interspecies transmission from nonhuman primates. We sho...

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Published in:	Journal of virology Vol. 82; no. 15; p. 7741
Main Authors:	Leendertz, Fabian H, Zirkel, Florian, Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel, Ellerbrok, Heinz, Morozov, Vladimir A, Pauli, Georg, Hedemann, Claudia, Formenty, Pierre, Jensen, Siv Aina, Boesch, Christophe, Junglen, Sandra
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.08.2008
Subjects:	Animals Colobus - virology Cote d'Ivoire Female Male Molecular Sequence Data Pan troglodytes - virology Phylogeny Retroviridae Infections - transmission Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid Simian foamy virus - isolation & purification Simian foamy virus - physiology Viral Proteins - genetics Cote d'Ivoire
ISSN:	1098-5514, 1098-5514
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