Identification of a human population infected with simian foamy viruses

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 403-407

  Heneine, Walid ^a   Switzer, William M ^a   Sandstrom, Paul ^a   Brown, Jennifer ^a   Vedapuri, Shanmugam ^a   Schable, Charles A ^b   Khan, Arifa S ^c   Lerche, Nicholas W ^d   Schweizer, Matthias ^e   Neumann Haefelin, Dieter ^e   Chapman, Louisa E ^a   Folks, Thomas M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPUMA VIRUS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE DISEASES; RETROVIRIDAE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SPUMAVIRUS; ZOONOSES;

CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA VIRUSES; HUMAN SPUMARETROVIRUS; PAPIO; PRIMATES; RABBIT FIBROMA VIRUS; SIMIAE; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS; SIMIAN RETROVIRUS; SPUMAVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0031924536     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0498-403     Document Type: Article

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