Background Foamy viruses (FV) are ancient complex retroviruses that differ from
orthoretroviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and murine leukemia virus …

Spumaretroviruses, commonly referred to as foamy viruses, are complex retroviruses
belonging to the subfamily Spumaretrovirinae, family Retroviridae, which naturally infect a …

Simple Summary Wildlife is trafficked illegally across the globe every day. The illegal wildlife
trade (IWT) creates opportunity for emerging infectious disease (EID) events to occur. EIDs …

Amazonian countries have historically sourced the international wildlife trade. However, little
is known about their domestic trade, which is often overlooked in estimates of trafficking …

Understanding pathogen exchange among human, wildlife, and livestock populations, and
the varying ecological and cultural contexts in which this exchange takes place, is a major …

Wildlife trafficking creates favorable scenarios for intra-and inter-specific interactions that
can lead to parasite spread and disease emergence. Among the fauna affected by this …

Foamy viruses (FVs) are the only exogenous retrovirus to date known to infect neotropical
primates (NPs). In the last decade, an increasing number of strains have been completely or …

Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 2019 pandemic prompted the emergence of collaborative
initiatives within South America and the Caribbean, to tackle common challenges. Many …

Simian foamy viruses (SFVs) are retroviruses present in nearly all nonhuman primates
(NHPs), including Old World primates (OWP) and New World primates (NWP). While all …

A recent study reported the discovery of an endogenous reptilian foamy virus (FV), termed
ERV-Spuma-Spu, found in the genome of tuatara. Here, we report two novel reptilian foamy …