"Superinfection of HIV-2 Infected Pigtail Macaques Using Two Distinct Isolates: Identification of a Window Period for Susceptibility."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 11th International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, "Objective: To establish and study homotypic mixed infections with two phenotypically and genotypically distinct primary isolates of HIV-2 using an established animal modeling system for human retroviral infection. Methods: Challenge stocks ({{approx}}102 macaque infectious doses) for a high syncytia-forming isolate from Guinea Bissau (HIV-2GB122) and a highly cytolytic isolate from Cote d'Ivoire (HIV-2CDC618) consisting of infected cells and supernatant were generated by propagation on a heterologous macaque cell pool from...

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