| characterization of a novel baboon virus closely resembling human t-cell leukemia virus. | we report the isolation of a virus from a baboon imported from kenya and the analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the env gene. comparison of the complete nucleotide sequence of the env gene of different htlv-1 strains and the baboon t-cell leukemia virus (designated btlv) indicated similarities ranging from 92.5 to 97.4%. in contrast, only 89.1% similarity was observed between the btlv env sequence and that of simian t-cell leukemia virus (ptm3). the sequences corresponding to the glycosylati ... | 1996 | 8941322 |