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Hepadnavirus Abstract

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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, Mar. 2000, p. 2955–2959                                                                                                        Vol. 74, No. 6
0022-538X/00/$04.0010
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Hepadnavirus Infection in Captive Gibbons

ROBERT E. LANFORD,1 * DEBORAH CHAVEZ,1 REBECA RICO-HESSE,1 AND ALAN MOOTNICK2

Department of Virology and Immunology, Southwest Regional Primate Research Center, Southwest Foundation for
Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas 78227, 1 and International Center for Gibbon Studies,
Santa Clarita, California 91380 2

Received 26 August 1999/Accepted 16 December 1999

    The recent isolation of  a nonhuman  primate hepadnavirus  from woolly monkeys  prompted  an examination of other primates for potentially new hepadnaviruses. A serological analysis of 30 captive gibbons revealed that 47% were positive for at least one marker of ongoing or previous infection with a hepatitis B virus (HBV). The amino  acid sequences  of the  core and  surface genes  of human  and gibbon  virus isolates  were very  similar. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the gibbon isolates lie within the human HBV family, indicating that these HBV isolates most likely stem from infection of gibbons from a human source.

 

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