A highly divergent HIV-2-related isolate.

doi:10.1038/342948a0

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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 genetica...

Topics

Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Female
Genes, Viral
Genetic Variation
Ghana
HIV-2
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Molecular Weight
Simian Immunodeficiency Virus
Viral Proteins

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