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African great apes are naturally infected with roseoloviruses closely related to human herpesvirus 7.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2014
Lavergne Anne, Donato Damien, Gessain Antoine, Niphuis Henk, Nerrienet Eric, Verschoor Ernst J, Lacoste Vincent
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UNLABELLED: Primates are naturally infected with herpesviruses. During the last 15 years, the search for homologues of human herpesviruses in nonhuman primates allowed the identification of numerous viruses belonging to the different herpesvirus subfamilies and genera. No simian homologue of human herpesvirus 7 (HHV7) has been reported to date. To investigate the putative existence of HHV7-like viruses in African...
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