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A highly divergent HIV-2-related isolate.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Dietrich U, Adamski M, Kreutz R, Seipp A, Kühnel H, Rübsamen-Waigmann H
Abstract excerpt
It has been suggested that the human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) and the simian immunodeficiency virus from rhesus macaques (SIVmac) evolved from the sooty mangabey virus SIVsm (ref. 1). We now describe an HIV-2-related isolate, HIV-2-D205, from a healthy Ghanaian woman that is genetically equidistant to the prototypic HIV-2 strains and to SIVsm and SIVmac. Supported by the observation that HIV-2D205...
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