TY - JOUR AU - Duprez, Renan AU - Boulanger, Emmanuelle AU - Roman, Yannick AU - Gessain, Antoine T1 - Novel γ-2-Herpesvirus of the Rhadinovirus 2 Lineage in Gibbons T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 5 SP - 899 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We obtained 475 nucleotides of the DNA polymerase gene of a novel human herpesvirus 8 homolog sequence in a gibbon. The finding of this new gibbon virus, which clusters with a related chimpanzee virus in the rhadinovirus 2 genogroup, suggests the existence of a novel γ-2-herpesvirus in humans. KW - Herpesviruses KW - Rhadinoviruses KW - gibbon KW - Asian apes KW - consensus-degenerate primers KW - phylogeny KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid1005.030964 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/5/03-0964_article ER - End of Reference