Other Animal Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
We identified a new subgroup of koala retrovirus (KoRV), named KoRV-J, which utilizes thiamine transport protein 1 as a receptor instead of the Pit-1 receptor used by KoRV (KoRV-A). By subgroup specific PCR, KoRV-J and KoRV-A were detected in 67.5 and 100 percent of koalas originating from northern koalas, respectively. Altogether, our results indicate that the invasion of the koala population by KoRV-J may have occurred more recently than by KoRV-A.
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