Publication Date:
2006-05-27
Description:
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the cause of human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a zoonotic infection of staggering proportions and social impact. Yet uncertainty persists regarding its natural reservoir. The virus most closely related to HIV-1 is a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) thus far identified only in captive members of the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes. Here we report the detection of SIVcpz antibodies and nucleic acids in fecal samples from wild-living P. t. troglodytes apes in southern Cameroon, where prevalence rates in some communities reached 29 to 35%. By sequence analysis of endemic SIVcpz strains, we could trace the origins of pandemic (group M) and nonpandemic (group N) HIV-1 to distinct, geographically isolated chimpanzee communities. These findings establish P. t. troglodytes as a natural reservoir of HIV-1.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442710/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442710/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Keele, Brandon F -- Van Heuverswyn, Fran -- Li, Yingying -- Bailes, Elizabeth -- Takehisa, Jun -- Santiago, Mario L -- Bibollet-Ruche, Frederic -- Chen, Yalu -- Wain, Louise V -- Liegeois, Florian -- Loul, Severin -- Ngole, Eitel Mpoudi -- Bienvenue, Yanga -- Delaporte, Eric -- Brookfield, John F Y -- Sharp, Paul M -- Shaw, George M -- Peeters, Martine -- Hahn, Beatrice H -- P30 AI 27767/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI058715/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI058715-05/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI50529/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI58715/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jul 28;313(5786):523-6. Epub 2006 May 25.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16728595" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Viral/analysis
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Ape Diseases/epidemiology/virology
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Cameroon/epidemiology
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DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics
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*Disease Outbreaks
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*Disease Reservoirs
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Feces/virology
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HIV Antibodies/analysis
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HIV Infections/epidemiology/*virology
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HIV-1/classification/*genetics
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Haplotypes
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Humans
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Molecular Epidemiology
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Pan troglodytes/classification/*virology
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Phylogeny
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Prevalence
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Recombination, Genetic
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Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/epidemiology/*virology
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Simian Immunodeficiency Virus/classification/*genetics/immunology/isolation &
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purification
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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