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Journal of Virology, November 1999, p. 9619-9624, Vol. 73, No. 11
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0

Persistent Zoonotic Infection of a Human with Simian Foamy Virus in the Absence of an Intact orf-2 Accessory Gene

Margaret E. Callahan, William M. Switzer, Aprille L. Matthews, Beverly D. Roberts, Walid Heneine, Thomas M. Folks, and Paul A. Sandstrom*

HIV/AIDS and Retrovirology Branch, Division of AIDS, STD, and TB Laboratory Research, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333

Received 8 April 1999/Accepted 11 August 1999

Although foamy viruses (FVs) are endemic among nonhuman primates, FV infection among humans is rare. Recently, simian foamy virus (SFV) infection was reported in 4 of 231 individuals occupationally exposed to primates (1.8%). Secondary transmission to spouses has not been seen, suggesting that while FV is readily zoonotic, humans may represent dead-end hosts. Among different simian species, SFV demonstrates significant sequence diversity within the U3 region of the long terminal repeat (LTR) and 3' accessory open reading frames (ORFs). To examine if persistent human SFV infection and apparent lack of secondary transmission are associated with genetic adaptations in FV regulatory regions, we conducted sequence analysis of the LTR, internal promoter, ORF-1, and ORF-2 on a tissue culture isolate and peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples from a human infected with SFV of African green monkey origin (SFV-3). Compared to the prototype SFV-3 sequence, the LTR, internal promoter, and FV transactivator (ORF-1) showed sequence conservation, suggesting that FV zoonosis is not dependent on host-specific adaptation to these transcriptionally important regions. However, ORF-2 contains a number of deleterious mutations predicted to result in premature termination of protein synthesis. ORF-2 codes in part for the 60-kDa Bet fusion protein, proposed to be involved in the establishment of persistent cellular SFV infections. These results suggest that persistent human infection by SFV and reduced transmissibility may be influenced by the absence of a functional ORF-2.

* Corresponding author. Present address: Bureau of HIV/AIDS, STD & TB, LCDC, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L2. Phone: (613) 957-8060. Fax: (613) 957-7258. E-mail: Paul_Sandstrom{at}hc-sc.gc.ca.

Journal of Virology, November 1999, p. 9619-9624, Vol. 73, No. 11
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0


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