Serial human passage of simian immunodeficiency virus by unsterile injections and the emergence of epidemic human immunodeficiency virus in Africa

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1410, 2001, Pages 911-920

  Marx, P A ^a   Alcabes, P G ^a   Drucker, E ^a  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Africa; Human immunodeficiency virus; Simian immunodeficiency virus; Unsterile injections; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE FLOW; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INJECTION;

AFRICA;

EID: 0035967940     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2001.0867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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