Table 1.

PERV infection experiments using cultured cells of different species

Type of infection	Species	References
Productive infection with replicationa	Immortalised human cells (e.g., 293 cells), cat, mink	[28, 34–39]
Infection without replicationb	Primary human cells (e.g., PBMCsd, PAEC), rhesus monkey, baboon, gorilla, chimpanzeed	[28, 35, 37–43]
Absence of infectionc	Mouse, rat, rabbit, cotton rat, horse, pig-tailed macaque, African green monkeys, cynomolgus monkeys	[28, 38, 44–46]

^aRelease of more virus particles than used for infection

^bRelease of less virus particles than used for infection

^cAbsence of provirus integration

^dUsing human-adapted PERV