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A divergent simian immunodeficiency virus from sooty mangabey with an atypical Tat-TAR structure.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 10 Aug 2001
Chakrabarti L A, Luckay A, Marx P A
Abstract excerpt
SIVsm, the simian immunodeficiency virus that naturally infects sooty mangabeys in West Africa, is the closest lentiviral relative of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2). To determine the genetic characteristics of SIVsm in its natural host, we sequenced the full-length genome of SIVsmSL92b, a primary isolate obtained from a pet sooty mangabey in Sierra Leone. SIVsmSL92b proved to be the most divergent...
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