Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

German Advisory Committee Blood … - Transfusion medicine …, 2016 - karger.com
German Advisory Committee Blood (Arbeitskreis Blut), Subgroup 'Assessment of Pathogens
Transmissible by Blood'tein, TM) are derived. In addition to the structural proteins, the HIV …

Origins of HIV and the AIDS pandemic

PM Sharp, BH Hahn - Cold Spring …, 2011 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) of humans is caused by two lentiviruses,
human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). Here, we describe the …

Evasion of cGAS and TRIM5 defines pandemic HIV

L Zuliani-Alvarez, ML Govasli, J Rasaiyaah… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Of the 13 known independent zoonoses of simian immunodeficiency viruses to humans,
only one, leading to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 (M) has become pandemic …

The origin and diversity of the HIV-1 pandemic

J Hemelaar - Trends in molecular medicine, 2012 - cell.com
This review examines the enormous progress that has been made in the past decade in
understanding the origin of HIV, HIV genetic variability, and the impact of global HIV diversity …

Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes

F Gao, E Bailes, DL Robertson, Y Chen… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
The human AIDS viruses human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2)
represent cross-species (zoonotic) infections,,,. Although the primate reservoir of HIV-2 has …

A new human immunodeficiency virus derived from gorillas

JC Plantier, M Leoz, JE Dickerson, F De Oliveira… - Nature medicine, 2009 - nature.com
We have identified a new human immunodeficiency virus in a Cameroonian woman. It is
closely related to gorilla simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVgor) and shows no evidence of …

AIDS as a zoonosis: scientific and public health implications

BH Hahn, GM Shaw, KM De, Cock, PM Sharp - Science, 2000 - science.org
Evidence of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection has been reported for 26 different
species of African nonhuman primates. Two of these viruses, SIVcpz from chimpanzees and …

Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1

BF Keele, F Van Heuverswyn, Y Li, E Bailes… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the cause of human acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a zoonotic infection of staggering proportions and …

Timing the ancestor of the HIV-1 pandemic strains

B Korber, M Muldoon, J Theiler, F Gao, R Gupta… - science, 2000 - science.org
HIV-1 sequences were analyzed to estimate the timing of the ancestral sequence of the
main group of HIV-1, the strains responsible for the AIDS pandemic. Using parallel …

HIV-1 nomenclature proposal

DL Robertson, JP Anderson, JA Bradac, JK Carr… - Science, 2000 - science.org
A clear and consistent genetic classification of human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1)
strains continues to be of great utility in epidemiological tracking of the AIDS pandemic and …