Natural hosts of SIV : implication in AIDS /
Natural Hosts of SIV: Implications in AIDS thoroughly reviews the possible mechanisms by which African nonhuman primate natural hosts of lentiviruses remain essentially disease-free while other hosts exhibit disease and death. The book ultimately indicates directions for further research and potenti...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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London :
Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Natural Hosts of SIV: Implications in AIDS thoroughly reviews the possible mechanisms by which African nonhuman primate natural hosts of lentiviruses remain essentially disease-free while other hosts exhibit disease and death. The book ultimately indicates directions for further research and potential translations of this compelling phenomenon into novel approaches to treat and prevent HIV. When Asian non-human primate non-natural hosts are experimentally infected with viruses isolated from African species, disease and death normally results. Meanwhile, these African nonhuman primate natural hosts maintain similar levels of plasma and cellular viremia and exhibit compellingly different, essentially disease-free, states. This work attempts to answer the question of how the natural host remains disease resistant. |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF version (EBSCO, viewed on July 17, 2014). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 385 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780124051676 0124051677 1306939356 9781306939355 |