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- Title
Detection of koala retrovirus subgroup B (KoRV-B) in animals housed at European zoos.
- Authors
Fiebig, Uwe; Keller, Martina; Denner, Joachim
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RETROVIRUS diseases; KOALA; ANIMAL housing; VIRAL genomes; VIRAL envelope proteins; ZOOS; DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Archives of Virology, 2016, Vol 161, Issue 12, p3549
- ISSN
0304-8608
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1007/s00705-016-3064-8