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Retrovirology is an open access, online journal that publishes stringently peer-reviewed, high-impact articles on host-pathogen interactions, fundamental mechanisms of replication, immune defenses, animal models, and clinical science relating to retroviruses. Retroviruses are pleiotropically found in animals. Well-described examples include avian, murine and primate retroviruses. 
Two human retroviruses are especially important pathogens. These are the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, and the human T-cell leukemia virus, HTLV. HIV causes AIDS while HTLV-1 is the etiological agent for adult T-cell leukemia and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. Retrovirology aims to cover comprehensively all aspects of human and animal retrovirus research.

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Editors-in-Chief 
Prof Johnson Mak, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Australia
Prof Susan Ross,  University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Editor Emeritus
Prof Andrew Lever, University of Cambridge, UK 
Founding Editor 
Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang, National Institutes of Health, USA
Associate Editors 
Dr Monsef Benkirane, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France 
Prof Ben Berkhout, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Dr Persephone Borrow, University of Oxford, UK 
Prof Ariberto Fassati, University College London, UK 
Prof Masahiro Fujii, Institute of Medicine and Dentistry, Niigata University, Japan 
Prof J Victor Garcia-Martinez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA 
Dr David Margolis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Dr Monique Nijhuis, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Prof Leslie Parent, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dr Klaus Strebel, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
Dr François Venter, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Reviews Editor
Prof Frank Kirchhoff, University of Ulm, Germany 
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Editorial Board 
Dr Nathalie Arhel, Labex EpiGenMed, France
Prof Charles Bangham, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, The Ohio State University, USA 
Prof Michael Bukrinsky, George Washington University, USA 
Dr Linda Chelico, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr Peter Cherepanov, Cancer Research UK, UK 
Prof Nicolas Chomont, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Canada
Dr Paul Clapham, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA 
Dr Alan Cochrane, University of Toronto, Canada 
Dr Eric A Cohen, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Canada 
Prof Zeger Debyser, KU Leuven, Belgium
Prof Felipe Diaz-Griffero, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA - Social Media Editor
Dr Stéphane Emiliani, Institut Cochin, France 
Dr Alan Engelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA 
Dr Eric O Freed, National Cancer Institute, USA 
Prof Anne Gatignol, McGill University, Canada 
Dr Robert Gifford, University of Glasgow, UK - Social Media Editor
Prof Stephen Goff, Columbia University, USA 
Prof Christine Goffinet, Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
Prof Paul Gorry, Macfarlane Burnet Institute, Australia 
Prof Patrick Green, The Ohio State University, USA 
Dr David Harrich, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia 
Dr Jiri Hejnar, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, Czech Republic
Prof Shibo Jiang, Fudan University, China
Prof Dong-Yan Jin, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong 
Prof Mari Kannagi, Immunotherapeutics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan 
Dr Fatah Kashanchi, George Washington University, USA 
Dr Julia Kenyon, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Rosemary Kiernan,  Institut de Génétique Humaine, France
Dr Christine Kozak, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Dr Sebla Kutulay, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Prof Sharon Lewin, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia
Prof Chen Liang, Lady Davis Institute, McGill University, Canada 
Prof Jeremy Luban, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA 
Prof Renaud Mahieux, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France 
Dr Alessandro Marcello, Intl. Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy 
Dr Florence Margottin-Goguet, Institut Cochin, France
Prof Masao Matsuoka, Kyoto University, Japan 
Dr Andrew J Mouland, Lady Davis Institute, McGill University, Canada 
Prof Barbara Muller, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
Prof Thumbi Ndung’u, Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa
Dr Philip Norris, Blood Systems Research Institute, USA 
Dr Alexander Pasternak, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr Vinay Pathak, National Cancer Institute, USA 
Prof Sallie Permar, Duke University, USA - Social Media Editor
Dr Vinayaka Prasad, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 
Prof Kei Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan - Social Media Editor
Dr Mineki Saito, Kawasaki Medical School, Japan 
Dr Marco Salemi, University of Florida, USA 
Dr Rogier Sanders, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Dr Olivier Schwartz, Institut Pasteur, France 
Dr Oliver John Semmes, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA 
Dr Alex Sigal, Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa
Prof Viviana A Simon, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Prof Klaus Überla, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany 
Prof Susana T Valente, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Prof Carine Van Lint, University of Brussels, Belgium 
Dr Li Wu, The Ohio State University, USA 
Dr Yuntao Wu, George Mason University, USA 
Dr Linqi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China 
Prof Richard Y Zhao, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA