Transspecies transmission of the endogenous koala retrovirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 5651-5654

  Fiebig, Uwe ^a   Hartmann, Manuel Garcia ^b   Bannert, Norbert ^a   Kurth, Reinhard ^a   Denner, Joachim ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Zoo Duisburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMANY; GIBBON LEUKEMIA VIRUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KOALA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GAMMARETROVIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; RATS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; GAMMARETROVIRUS; GIBBON APE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 33646721361     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02597-05     Document Type: Article

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