A gorilla reservoir for human T-lymphotropic virus type 4

A gorilla reservoir for human T-lymphotropic virus type 4

Of the seven known species of human retroviruses only one, human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 4 (HTLV-4), lacks a known animal reservoir. We report the largest screening for simian T-cell lymphotropic virus (STLV-4) to date in a wide range of captive and wild non-human primate (NHP) species from C...

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Main Authors: Matthew LeBreton, William M Switzer, Cyrille F Djoko, Amethyst Gillis, Hongwei Jia, Michele M Sturgeon, Anupama Shankar, Haoqiang Zheng, Gerard Nkeunen, Ubald Tamoufe, Ahmadou Nana, Joseph Le Doux Diffo, Babila Tafon, John Kiyang, Bradley S Schneider, Donald S Burke, Nathan D Wolfe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014-01-01
Series:Emerging Microbes and Infections
Subjects:
gorilla
human T-lymphotropic virus
primate
retrovirus
simian T-lymphotropic virus
zoonoses
Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1038/emi.2014.7

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