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SUBMITTER: Hechler T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3457248 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of virology 20121001 19
Bovine foamy virus (BFV), or bovine spumaretrovirus, is an infectious agent of cattle with no obvious disease association but high prevalence in its host. Here, we report two complete BFV sequences, BFV-Riems, isolated in 1978 in East Germany, and BFV100, isolated in 2005 in Poland. Both new BFV isolates share the overall genetic makeup of other foamy viruses (FV). Although isolated almost 25 years apart and propagated in either bovine (BFV-Riems) or nonbovine (BFV100) cells, both viruses are hi ...[more]