title: Heterogeneity of primate foamy virus genomes. Brief report.
abstract: DNA of the T-lymphotropic simian foamy virus (SFV) LK-3 was cloned in a plasmid vector and used as a probe in comparative DNA:DNA hybridization studies with primate foamy viruses (SFV serotypes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, fresh SFV isolates from 12 African green monkeys and one rhesus monkey, as well as human syncytium forming virus). All freshly isolated viruses seemed to be variants of SFV types 2 and 3. Especially LK-3 appeared to be closely related to SFV type 3. No hybridization of the LK-3 clone was observed to DNA sequences of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1).
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Virologie, Klinikum der Universität Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schweizer
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Corsten
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Neumann-Haefelin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D011323:Primates / Q000382:microbiology; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D016092:Spumavirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes