ENGLISH

Foamy Viruses

By A. Rethwilm (auth.) , Prof. Dr. Axel Rethwilm (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2003
ISBN
978-3-642-62934-1, 978-3-642-55701-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-55701-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1551327 bytes)
Series
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 277
Edition
1
Pages
214\218
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Virology

Description

The aberrant replication pathway of foamy viruses distinguishes them from all other retroviruses. Many details have been accumulated over the past ten or so years. Most of the findings on foamy viruses were obtained by research on a single virus isolate previously called "human foamy virus", which appeared to be the first to be investigated on a molecular level. However, to the editor's knowledge, genuine human foamy viruses do not exist, but several trans-species transmissions of different simian foamy viruses from monkeys and apes to human hosts.

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