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 …

Simian immunodeficiency virus infection of chimpanzees

PM Sharp, GM Shaw, BH Hahn - Journal of virology, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) are primate lentiviruses that infect no fewer than 36
different nonhuman primate species in sub-Saharan Africa (4, 9, 62). Two of these viruses …

The ability of primate lentiviruses to degrade the monocyte restriction factor SAMHD1 preceded the birth of the viral accessory protein Vpx

ES Lim, OI Fregoso, CO McCoy, FA Matsen, HS Malik… - Cell host & …, 2012 - cell.com
The human SAMHD1 protein potently restricts lentiviral infection in dendritic cells and
monocyte/macrophages but is antagonized by the primate lentiviral protein Vpx, which …

[HTML][HTML] Risk to human health from a plethora of simian immunodeficiency viruses in primate bushmeat

M Peeters, V Courgnaud, B Abela, P Auzel… - Emerging infectious …, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To assess human exposure to Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in west central Africa,
we looked for SIV infection in 788 monkeys that were hunted in the rainforests of Cameroon …

Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Free-Ranging Sooty Mangabeys (Cercocebus atys atys) from the Taï Forest, Côte d'Ivoire: Implications for the Origin of …

ML Santiago, F Range, BF Keele, Y Li, E Bailes… - Journal of …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

Preferential host switching by primate lentiviruses can account for phylogenetic similarity with the primate phylogeny

MA Charleston, DL Robertson - Systematic biology, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Primate lentiviruses (PLV) from closely related primate species have been observed to be
more closely related to each other than to PLV from more distantly related primate species …

Going wild: lessons from naturally occurring T-lymphotropic lentiviruses

S VandeWoude, C Apetrei - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Over 40 nonhuman primate (NHP) species harbor species-specific simian
immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs). Similarly, more than 20 species of nondomestic felids and …

[PDF][PDF] The history of SIVS and AIDS: epidemiology, phylogeny and biology of isolates from naturally SIV infected non-human primates (NHP) in Africa

C Apetrei, DL Robertson, PA Marx - Front Biosci, 2004 - researchgate.net
Introduction 3. Discovery of SIVs in African non-human primate species: the path from the
discovery of the simian origin of HIVs to the characterization of the largest and most diverse …

[HTML][HTML] The origin and diversity of human retroviruses

M Peeters, M D'Arc, E Delaporte - AIDS reviews, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIV), T-cell lymphotrophic viruses (STLV), and foamy
viruses (SFV) from non-human primates (NHP) have crossed the species barrier to humans …

Cross-species transmission of simian retroviruses: how and why they could lead to the emergence of new diseases in the human population

S Locatelli, M Peeters - Aids, 2012 - journals.lww.com
The HIV-1 group M epidemic illustrates the extraordinary impact and consequences
resulting from a single zoonotic transmission. Exposure to blood or other secretions of …