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Retrovirus
Data from J. Denner et al provide new insights into retrovirus
May 28th, 2008
According to a study from Berlin, Germany, "Xenotransplantation using porcine cells or organs may be associated with the risk of transmission of zoonotic microorganisms. Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) pose a potentially high risk because they are integrated into the genome of all pigs and PERV-A and PERV-B at least, which are present in all pigs, can infect human cells." "However, PERV transmission could not be demonstrated in the first recipients of clinical xenotrans-plantation or after numerous experimental pig-to-non-human primate transplantations. In addition, inoculation of immunosuppressed small animals and non-human primates failed to result in...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-05-28)
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