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Koala retrovirus diversity, transmissibility, and disease associations.
Retrovirology - 2 Oct 2020
Zheng HaoQiang, Pan Yi, Tang Shaohua, Pye Geoffrey W, Stadler Cynthia K, Vogelnest Larry, Herrin Kimberly Vinette, Rideout Bruce A, Switzer William M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Koalas are infected with the koala retrovirus (KoRV) that exists as exogenous or endogenous viruses. KoRV is genetically diverse with co-infection with up to ten envelope subtypes (A-J) possible; KoRV-A is the prototype endogenous form. KoRV-B, first found in a small number of koalas with an increased leukemia prevalence at one US zoo, has been associated with other cancers and increased chlamydial...
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