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Reduced Prevalence of Epstein-Barr Virus-Related Lymphocryptovirus Infection in Sera from a New World Primate
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- American Society for Microbiology, 2005.
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Abstract
- The recent discovery of an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related lymphocryptovirus (LCV) naturally infecting common marmosets demonstrated that gamma-1 herpesviruses are not limited to human and Old World nonhuman primate hosts. We developed serologic assays to detect serum antibodies against lytic- and latent-infection marmoset LCV antigens in order to perform the first seroepidemiologic study of LCV infection in New World primates. In three different domestic colonies and in animals recently captured from the wild, we found that the seroprevalence of marmoset LCV infection was not as ubiquitous as with EBV or Old World LCV. These biologic differences in LCV infection of New World versus human and Old World primate hosts correlate with the evolution of the LCV viral gene repertoire.
- Subjects :
- Old World
Immunology
Molecular Sequence Data
medicine.disease_cause
Antibodies, Viral
Microbiology
Virus
Herpesviridae
Serology
Lymphocryptovirus
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Virology
biology.animal
medicine
Gammaherpesvirinae
Animals
Serologic Tests
Amino Acid Sequence
biology
Marmoset
Callithrix
Herpesviridae Infections
biology.organism_classification
Epstein–Barr virus
Tumor Virus Infections
Insect Science
Pathogenesis and Immunity
Capsid Proteins
Sequence Alignment
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b6b08c1c3dbcc50625d6de594441a2ec