| long-term persistent infection of domestic rabbits by the human foamy virus. | human foamy virus (hfv) belongs to the spumaretrovirus group of the retroviridae taxonomic family. attempts to associate hfv or other foamy viruses to a specific pathology still remain unsuccessful. however, viral gene expression as well as tissue-specific tropism in an in vivo context remain poorly analyzed. to address this issue, we have infected domestic rabbits with a single dose of hfv and followed them at the biological and molecular levels for 5 years. no apparent pathology was detectable ... | 1997 | 9123833 |