Etiology (HIV-1)

Scientists Discover Origin of HIV-1

Published in Virus Weekly, February 15th, 1999

Scientists reported that a subspecies of chimpanzee native to west equatorial Africa has been identified as the original source of HIV-1.

Beatrice H. Hahn, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, a grantee of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led the international team of investigators. They described their findings in the February 4, 1999, issue of Nature and Hahn also presented the study details on the opening night of the 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held in Chicago, Illinois, January/February, 1999 (F. Gao, et al., "Origin of HIV-1 in the Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes," Nature...

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