Viral RNA Levels and env Variants in Semen and Tissues of Mature Male Rhesus Macaques Infected with SIV by Penile Inoculation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Fieni, Francis ^a,b,e   Stone, Mars ^a,b   Ma, Zhong Min ^a,b   Dutra, Joseph ^a,b   Fritts, Linda ^a   Miller, Christopher J ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INOCULATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENIS; PROSTATE; RHESUS MONKEY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PENIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84885414810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076367     Document Type: Article

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