| Literature DB >> 17093443 |
Fran Van Heuverswyn1, Yingying Li, Cecile Neel, Elizabeth Bailes, Brandon F Keele, Weimin Liu, Severin Loul, Christelle Butel, Florian Liegeois, Yanga Bienvenue, Eitel Mpoudi Ngolle, Paul M Sharp, George M Shaw, Eric Delaporte, Beatrice H Hahn, Martine Peeters.
Abstract
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from west central Africa are recognized as the reservoir of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVcpzPtt) that have crossed at least twice to humans: this resulted in the AIDS pandemic (from human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 group M) in one instance and infection of just a few individuals in Cameroon (by HIV-1 group N) in another. A third HIV-1 lineage (group O) from west central Africa also falls within the SIVcpzPtt radiation, but the primate reservoir of this virus has not been identified. Here we report the discovery of HIV-1 group O-like viruses in wild gorillas.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17093443 DOI： 10.1038/444164a
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN： 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962