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ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volume 161, Issue 12, Pages 3549-3553Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-016-3064-8
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Retroviruses; Endogenous retroviruses; Koala; PCR
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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.
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