Origin and biology of simian immunodeficiency virus in wild-living western gorillas

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1635-1648

  Takehisa, Jun ^a   Kraus, Matthias H ^a   Ayouba, Ahidjo ^b   Bailes, Elizabeth ^c   Van Heuverswyn, Fran ^b   Decker, Julie M ^a   Li, Yingying ^a   Rudicell, Rebecca S ^f   Learn, Gerald H ^a   Neel, Cecile ^b,d   Ngole, Eitel Mpoudi ^d   Shaw, George M ^a,f   Peeters, Martine ^b   Sharp, Paul M ^e   Hahn, Beatrice H ^a,f  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d Projet Prevention du Sida au Cameroun PRESICA   (Cameroon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CENTRAL AFRICA; FECES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; RADIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENOME, VIRAL; GORILLA GORILLA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 59649092363     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02311-08     Document Type: Article

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