HIV/AIDS
New HIV/AIDS study findings recently were published by S. Macfie and co-researchers
Published in AIDS Weekly, April 20th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, "Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) arose in humans via zoonotic transmissions of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVcpz) from common chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes. Despite the close relatedness of the two viruses and their hosts, we do not yet understand what causes SIVcpz to be nonpathogenic in chimpanzees, and HIV/AIDS to be one of the most devastating infectious diseases to have emerged in humans."
"There have been a number of genes identified in humans that confer disease resistance/susceptibility toward HIV-1, but little is known about the evolution and diversity...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-04-20)
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