Recent examples of escape followed by immune control of HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) are discussed. The consequences for the evolution of HIV of the transmission of viruses that ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an infection that originated in primates (zoonosis) and was passed into humans. The main form of HIV is closely related to the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) ...

These cellular requirements distinguish lentiviruses such as HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) from other retroviruses. For retroviral nucleic acids to access the host cell nucleus ...

HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is the microorganism responsible for AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and ...

Our goal is to understand how virus evolution is influenced by genetic variation ... specifically the lentiviruses of humans and their primate relatives (the human and simian immunodeficiency viruses ...