The sooty mangabey (SM)(Cercocebus atys) is the natural host of a simian
immunodeficiency virus, termed SIVsm, which gave rise to human immunodeficiency virus …

Simian immunodeficiency virus of sooty mangabeys (SIVsmm) is recognized as the
progenitor of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) and has been transmitted to …

Polymerase chain reaction techniques were used to identify simian immunodeficiency virus
(SIV) SIVsmm gag sequences in genomic DNA isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear …

Studies of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) in their endangered primate hosts are of
obvious medical and public health importance, but technically challenging. Although SIV …

Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) SIVsmm naturally infects sooty mangabeys (SMs) and
is the source virus of pathogenic infections with human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV …

L'Hoest's monkeys (Cercopithecus lhoesti) are believed to be naturally infected with a
simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), termed SIVlho, but only a handful of isolates, all …

Like most emerging infectious disease viruses, HIV is also of zoonotic origin. To assess the
risk for cross-species transmission of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) from …

Retrospective molecular epidemiology was performed on samples from four sooty
mangabey (SM) colonies in the United States to characterize simian immunodeficiency virus …

It has been proposed that human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) originated from
simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) that are natural infections of sooty mangabeys …

Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) originated from simian immunodeficiency
viruses (SIVs) that naturally infect sooty mangabeys (SMs; Cercocebus atys). In order to …