"In Vitro Infection by Human Foamy Virus: Implications for Pathogenesis in HTLV-I and HIV-1 Infected or Uninfected Target Cells."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 7th International Conference on Human Retrovirology, held October 17-21, 1995, in Paris, France, "Human foamy virus (HFV) is a readily isolated complex human retrovirus that has yet to be clearly implicated in human disease. The ability of HFV isolates to infect primary hematopoietic and brain derived microglial cells has not been shown. To study infectivity, an infectious molecular clone of HFV was transfected into the human kidney cell line 293. Transfected 293 cell supernatants and cell lysates caused productive infection of a variety of human myeloid and lymphoid cell lines, primary cell cultures enriched for human...

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