Article
Unique pattern of convergent envelope evolution in simian immunodeficiency virus-infected rapid progressor macaques: association with CD4-independent usage of CCR5.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2003
Dehghani Houman, Puffer Bridget A, Doms Robert W, Hirsch Vanessa M
Abstract excerpt
The rate of disease development in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of macaques varies considerably among individual macaques. While the majority of macaques inoculated with pathogenic SIV develop AIDS within a period of 1 to 2 years, a minority exhibit a rapid disease course characterized by absence or transience of humoral and cellular immune responses and high levels of virus replication with...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
