Molecular epidemiology of simian immunodeficiency virus SIVsm in U.S. primate centers unravels the origin of SIVmac and SIVstm

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 8991-9005

  Apetrei, Cristian ^a,b   Kaur, Amitinder ^c   Lerche, Nicholas W ^d   Metzger, Michael ^a   Pandrea, Ivona ^a,b   Hardcastle, Johnny ^e   Falkenstein, Shelley ^a   Bohm, Rudolf ^a,b   Koehler, Jeffrey ^a   Traina Dorge, Vicki ^a   Williams, Tessa ^a   Staprans, Silvija ^f   Plauche, Gail ^a   Veazey, Ronald S ^a,b   McClure, Harold ^f   Lackner, Andrew A ^a,b   Gormus, Bobby ^a   Robertson, David L ^g   Marx, Preston A ^a,b  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; ENVELOPE GENE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; CERCOCEBUS ATYS; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS ATYS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PRIMATES; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS SIVSM;

EID: 21644462490     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.14.8991-9005.2005     Document Type: Article

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