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Journal of Virology, October 2003, p. 10695-10699, Vol. 77, No. 19
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.19.10695-10699.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Novel Simian Homologues of Epstein-Barr Virus

Bernhard Ehlers,1* Andreas Ochs,2 Fabian Leendertz,1,3 Michael Goltz,1 Christophe Boesch,3 and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing4

Robert Koch-Institut, D-13353 Berlin,1 Zoologischer Garten Berlin AG, D-10787 Berlin,2 Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, D-04103 Leipzig,3 Deutsches Primatenzentrum, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany4

Received 28 March 2003/ Accepted 14 July 2003

Thirty different lymphocryptoviruses (LCV), 26 of them novel, were detected in primates by a panherpesvirus PCR assay. Nineteen LCV from chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and other Old World primates were closely related to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the type species of the genus Lymphocryptovirus. Seven LCV originating from New World primates were related to callitrichine herpesvirus 3 (CalHV-3), the first recognized New World LCV. Importantly, a second LCV from gorillas and three LCV from orangutans and gibbons were only distantly related to EBV and CalHV-3. They were tentatively assigned to a novel genogroup of Old World primate LCV. The work described in the paper may also help identify an as yet unknown human LCV.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany. Phone: 49/30/4547 2347. Fax: 49/30/4547 2598. E-mail: ehlersb{at}rki.de.

Journal of Virology, October 2003, p. 10695-10699, Vol. 77, No. 19
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.19.10695-10699.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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