Published in AIDS Weekly, February 6th, 2006
Study 1: Pathogenic simian immunodeficiency syndrome infection does not correlate with viral load.
According to a study from the United States, "Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is known to result in an asymptomatic infection of its natural African monkey host. However, some SIV strains are capable of inducing AIDS-like symptoms and death upon experimental infection of Asian macaques."
"To further investigate the virulence of natural SIV isolates from African monkeys, pig-tailed (PT) macaques were inoculated intravenously with either...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-02-06)
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