ONCOGENIC VIRUSES OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES: A REVIEW

摘要

Oncogenic viruses of nonhuman primates were reviewed. Viruses of nonhuman primate origin oncogenic in other nonhuman primates includes Herpesvirus saimiri and ateles, simian sarcoma virus, Yaba poxvirus, and oral papilloma virus. SV-40 and simian adenoviruses isolated from nonhuman primates were onocogenic in aminals other than nonhuman primates. Rous sarcoma, feline fibrosarcoma, Epstein Barr, Herpes hominis, and Molluscum contagiosum viruses were isolated from animals other than nonhuman primates but were found to be onocogenic in nonhuman primates. The Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, isolated from a monkey tumor, has transformed cells in vitro but its in vivo oncogenicity is still questionable.