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Baboon endogenous virus evolution and ecology
A C van der Kuyl1, J T Dekker, J Goudsmit
1Dept of Human Retrovirology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. kuyl@amceva.amc.uva.nl
Trends in Microbiology
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
Cross-species transmission of retroviruses among primates has recently been recognized as the source of the current epidemics of HIV-1, HIV-2 and human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1). The distribution of baboon endogenous virus among non-human primates resembles that of exogenous viruses and appears to be a consequence of different primate species sharing the same habitat.