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

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 7741-7744

  Leendertz, Fabian H ^a,b   Zirkel, Florian ^a   Couacy Hymann, Emmanuel ^c   Ellerbrok, Heinz ^a   Morozov, Vladimir A ^d   Pauli, Georg ^a   Hedemann, Claudia ^a   Formenty, Pierre ^e   Jensen, Siv Aina ^a,f   Boesch, Christophe ^b   Junglen, Sandra ^a,b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Lanada/Lcpa ^*  (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COLOBINAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COLOBUS; COTE D'IVOIRE; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

COLOBUS SP.; HUMAN SPUMARETROVIRUS; PAN; PRIMATES; RABBIT FIBROMA VIRUS; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS;

EID: 47749114638     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00549-08     Document Type: Article

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