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Progression to AIDS in the absence of a gene for vpr or vpx.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 1995
Gibbs J S, Lackner A A, Lang S M, Simon M A, Sehgal P K, Daniel M D, Desrosiers R C
Abstract excerpt
Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were experimentally infected with strains of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) derived from SIVmac239 lacking vpr, vpx, or both vpr and vpx genes. These auxiliary genes are not required for virus replication in cultured cells but are consistently conserved within the SIVmac/human immunodeficiency virus type 2/SIVsm group of primate lentiviruses. All four rhesus monkeys infected...
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