High prevalence of simian foamy virus infection of South American Indians.

Simian foamy viruses (SFV) are retroviruses that widely infect nonhuman primates of New and Old-World origin and exhibit long-standing co-evolution with their hosts. Humans can acquire SFV from zoonotic exposures but are not known to be endemically infected and typically exhibit dead-end infections....

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Main Authors: William M Switzer, HaoQiang Zheng, Cláudia P Muniz, Yi Pan, Hongwei Jia, Shaohua Tang, Anupama Shankar, Roxana Cintron, Jan Drobeniuc, Marcelo A Soares, Walid Heneine
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-06-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013169
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