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Les rétrovirus spumeux : du nouveau chez les rétrovirus Volume 1, issue 5, Septembre - Octobre 1997

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UPR 90-51 CNRS Hôpital Saint-Louis, 75475 Paris Cedex 10

Since the discovery of the AIDS virus, retroviruses have enjoyed a renewed interest by the scientific community. Foamy viruses, the third subgroup of the family of exogenous retroviruses, have been thought to be innocuous in vivo and hence attention was transfered to pathogenic retroviruses. However, recent fascinating findings on foamy viruses bring new important biological aspects of general interest for the field of retrovirology.