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Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

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  • © 1994

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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 188)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

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About this book

Interest in the lentivirus subfamily of retroviruses has greatly intensified due to the realization that HIV-1 and HIV-2 are members of this previously obscure group. Related lentiviruses have now been isolated from sheep, goats, horses, cattle, cats, monkeys, and humans. This issue of CTMI is devoted to the lentiviruses of nonhuman primates, referred to as simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs). The SIVs provide valuable tools for our quest to understand and control the HIVs, which are obviously important new human pathogens. Included in this volume are discussions of the distribution and molecular phylogeny of the SIVs and their use as animal models for the study of AIDS pathogenesis, and the chapters clearly illustrate how SIV models are contributing to our understanding of the ability of host immune responses to control infection at least temporarily and the ability of virus to evade these host immune defenses.

Editors and Affiliations

  • New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, USA

    Norman L. Letvin, Ronald C. Desrosiers

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

  • Editors: Norman L. Letvin, Ronald C. Desrosiers

  • Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78536-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-78538-2Published: 30 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-78536-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-217X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 241

  • Topics: Immunology, Virology

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

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