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Researchers from University of Alabama publish new studies and findings in the area of HIV/AIDS

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 15th, 2009

"We recently developed a novel strategy to identify transmitted HIV-1 genomes in acutely infected humans using single-genome amplification and a model of random virus evolution. Here, we used this approach to determine the molecular features of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) transmission in 18 experimentally infected Indian rhesus macaques," scientists writing in the Journal of Experimental Medicine report.

"Animals were inoculated intrarectally (i.r.) or intravenously (i.v.) with stocks of SIVmac251 or SIVsmE660 that exhibited sequence diversity typical of early-chronic HIV-1 infection. 987 full-length SIV env sequences ( median of 48 per animal) were...

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