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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).
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Schweizer, M., Corsten, B. & Neumann-Haefelin, D. Heterogeneity of primate foamy virus genomes. Archives of Virology 99, 125–134 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01311030
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