TY  - JOUR
AU  - Khan, Arifa S
AU  - Löchelt, Martin
AU  - Buseyne, Florence
AU  - Herchenröder, Ottmar
AU  - Lindemann, Dirk
AU  - Switzer, William M
AU  - Santos, André F A
AU  - Soares, Marcelo A
TI  - Thirteenth International Foamy Virus Conference-Meeting Report.
JO  - Viruses
VL  - 17
IS  - 8
SN  - 1999-4915
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - DKFZ-2025-01804
SP  - 1071
PY  - 2025
AB  - The 13th International Foamy Virus (FV) Conference was held from 8 to 10 November 2023 at the BioParque/Zoological Garden in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the first conference on spumaretroviruses to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and in the unique environment of the rainforest. New developments and current perspectives in FV research were presented. Highlights of the conference included the structural biology of the envelope protein (Env) and insights into its function and evolution, epidemiologic identification of Amazonian indigenous people with a high prevalence of simian FV (SFV) infections, investigations of virus biology and genomics using synthetic FV DNAs, studies of humoral immune response, and development and applications of SFV vectors. The last day of the meeting was a special tour of the Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro, located northeast of Rio de Janeiro amidst the protected rainforest, where New World primate hosts of spumaretroviruses are rescued and studied. Our report summarizes the meeting highlights and outcomes for future discussions.
KW  - Humans
KW  - Animals
KW  - Spumavirus: genetics
KW  - Spumavirus: physiology
KW  - Spumavirus: immunology
KW  - Retroviridae Infections: virology
KW  - Retroviridae Infections: epidemiology
KW  - Retroviridae Infections: veterinary
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Congresses as Topic
KW  - FV vectors (Other)
KW  - New World primates (Other)
KW  - cross-species transmission (Other)
KW  - foamy virus (Other)
KW  - immune responses (Other)
KW  - latent infection (Other)
KW  - restriction factors (Other)
KW  - spumaretrovirus (Other)
KW  - structural biology (Other)
KW  - virus replication (Other)
KW  - virus–host co-evolution (Other)
KW  - zoonosis (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40872784
DO  - DOI:10.3390/v17081071
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/304250
ER  -