Detection of koala retrovirus subgroup B (KoRV-B) in animals housed at European zoos

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• 作者：Uwe Fiebig ; Martina Keller ; Joachim Denner
• 关键词：Retroviruses ; Endogenous retroviruses ; Koala ; PCR
• 刊名：Archives of Virology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：161
• 期：12
• 页码：3549-3553
• 全文大小：1,050 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Biomedicine
  Virology
  Medical Microbiology
  Infectious Diseases
  
• 出版者：Springer Wien
• ISSN：1432-8798
• 卷排序：161

文摘

Many koalas carry an endogenous retrovirus, KoRV-A, in their genome. Recently, a second retrovirus, KoRV-B, was detected in koalas in Japanese and U.S. zoos. However, this virus is not endogenous, differs in the receptor binding site of the surface envelope protein, and uses a receptor different from that of KoRV-A. We describe here a KoRV-B found in koalas at zoos in Germany and Belgium that differs slightly from that found in the Los Angeles zoo.