Institut für Experimentelle Gentherapie und Tumorforschung, Universitätsmedizin Rostock, 18057 Rostock, Germany.
Department of Viral Transformation Mechanisms, Research Program Infection, Inflammation and Cancer, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Viruses. 2019 Feb 1;11(2):134. doi: 10.3390/v11020134.
The 12 International Foamy Virus Conference took place on August 30⁻31, 2018 at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. The meeting included presentations on current research on non-human primate and non-primate foamy viruses (FVs; also called spumaretroviruses) as well as keynote talks on related research areas in retroviruses. The taxonomy of foamy viruses was updated earlier this year to create five new genera in the subfamily, , based on their animal hosts. Research on viruses from different genera was presented on topics of potential relevance to human health, such as natural infections and cross-species transmission, replication, and viral-host interactions in particular with the immune system, dual retrovirus infections, virus structure and biology, and viral vectors for gene therapy. This article provides an overview of the current state-of-the-field, summarizes the meeting highlights, and presents some important questions that need to be addressed in the future.
第十二届国际泡沫病毒会议于 2018 年 8 月 30 日至 31 日在德国德累斯顿工业大学举行。会议包括有关非人类灵长类动物和非灵长类动物泡沫病毒（也称为泡沫反转录病毒）的当前研究报告，以及关于反转录病毒相关研究领域的主题演讲。今年早些时候，泡沫病毒的分类法进行了更新，根据其动物宿主创建了五个新属，在亚科中。关于不同属病毒的研究涉及与人类健康相关的潜在主题，例如自然感染和跨物种传播、复制以及病毒与免疫系统的相互作用，双重反转录病毒感染、病毒结构和生物学以及用于基因治疗的病毒载体。本文概述了该领域的最新进展，总结了会议要点，并提出了未来需要解决的一些重要问题。
