Direct inoculation of simian immunodeficiency virus from sooty mangabeys in black mangabeys (Lophocebus aterrimus): First evidence of AIDS in a heterologous African species and different pathologic outcomes of experimental infection

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 11506-11518

  Apetrei, Cristian ^a,b   Gormus, Bobby ^a   Pandrea, Ivona ^a,b   Metzger, Michael ^a   Ten Haaft, Peter ^c   Martin, Louis N ^a   Bohm, Rudolf ^a   Alvarez, Xavier ^a,b   Koopman, Gerrit ^c   Murphey Corb, Michael ^a,d   Veazey, Ronald S ^a,b   Lackner, Andrew A ^a,b   Baskin, Gary ^a   Heeney, Jonathan ^c   Marx, Preston A ^a,b  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOCEBUS ATYS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPTERIN; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 6344284778     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.21.11506-11518.2004     Document Type: Article

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