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Replication of Primate Foamy Viruses in Natural and Experimental Hosts

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Foamy viruses (FVs) are common apathogenic retroviruses readily spread by horizontal transmission in nonhuman primate and some other mammalian host populations. Primate FV infections have been known for half a century, i.e., 15 years before the definition of retroviruses and another 15 years before the detection of primate immune deficiency viruses. The emerging interest in human retroviruses

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Falcone, V., Schweizer, M., Neumann-Haefelin, D. (2003). Replication of Primate Foamy Viruses in Natural and Experimental Hosts. In: Rethwilm, A. (eds) Foamy Viruses. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55701-9_7

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