Protective correlates against HIVs may have evolved in human populations in the areas of historic occurrence of primate-to-man transmissions of SIVs ancestral to HIVs: Studies in these populations may provide crucial insights for treatment and prevention of HIV infection

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 433-437

  Parsyan, Armen E ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMATE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SPECIES HABITAT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HIV; HUMANS; POPULATION; PRIMATES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ZOONOSES;

HIV 1; HIV 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PRIMATES; SIMIAE; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 11144289606     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.09.018     Document Type: Article

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