Gibbon ape leukemia virus
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gibbon-ape-leukemia-virus-195-7815407
title:
Gibbon ape leukemia virus
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Gibbon-ape leukemia virus (GaLV) is an oncogenic, type C retrovirus that has been isolated from primate neoplasms, including the white-handed gibbon and woolly monkey. The virus was identified as the etiological agent of hematopoietic neoplasms, leukemias, and immune deficiencies within gibbons in 1971, during the epidemic of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Epidemiological research into the origins of GaLV has developed two hypotheses for the virus' emergence. These include cross-species transmi
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Species of virus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbon_ape_leukemia_virus
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2023-09-02T13:27:48Z
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