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Foamy Viruses, Bet, and APOBEC3 Restriction.
Viruses - 18 Mar 2021
Jaguva Vasudevan Ananda Ayyappan, Becker Daniel, Luedde Tom, Gohlke Holger, Münk Carsten
Abstract excerpt
Non-human primates (NHP) are an important source of viruses that can spillover to humans and, after adaptation, spread through the host population. Whereas HIV-1 and HTLV-1 emerged as retroviral pathogens in humans, a unique class of retroviruses called foamy viruses (FV) with zoonotic potential are occasionally detected in bushmeat hunters or zookeepers. Various FVs are endemic in numerous mammalian natural...
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