Frequent horizontal and mother-to-child transmission may contribute to high prevalence of STLV-1 infection in Japanese macaques.
Megumi MurataJun-Ichirou YasunagaAyaka WashizakiYohei SekiMadoka KuramitsuWei Keat TanAnna HuKazu OkumaIsao HamaguchiTakuo MizukamiMasao MatsuokaHirofumi AkariPublished in: Retrovirology (2020)
Together with the fact that almost all of the full-adult JMs older than 9 years old were infected with STLV-1, our results of this study demonstrated for the first time that frequent horizontal and mother-to-child transmission may contribute to high prevalence of STLV-1 infection in JMs.