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Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) from eastern and southern Africa: detection of a SIVagm variant from a chacma baboon.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jul 1998
van Rensburg E J, Engelbrecht S, Mwenda J, Laten J D, Robson B A, Stander T, Chege G K
Abstract excerpt
Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) have been shown to infect many Old World African primate species. Thus far, no work has been published on southern African primates. In this study we investigated the genetic diversity between SIV strains from Kenyan and South African vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus). We amplified and sequenced a 1113 bp region of the env gene. Phylogenetic analysis of these...
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