Foamy viruses
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Foamy viruses
(Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 277)
Springer, 2003
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Description
The aberrant replication pathway of foamy viruses distinguishes them from all other retroviruses. Many details have been accumulated over the past ten or so years. Most of the findings on foamy viruses were obtained by research on a single virus isolate previously called "human foamy virus", which appeared to be the first to be investigated on a molecular level. However, to the editor's knowledge, genuine human foamy viruses do not exist, but several trans-species transmissions of different simian foamy viruses from monkeys and apes to human hosts.
Table of Contents
Preface.-The replication strategy of foamy viruses.-Foamy virus transactivation and gene expression.-Proteolytic processing of foamy virus gag and pol proteins.-Particle assembly and genome packaging.-The foamy virus envelope glycoproteins.-Foamy virus vectors.-Replication of primate foamy viruses in natural and experimental hosts.-Human infection with foamy viruses.-Non-primate foamy viruses.-Subject index
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