HIV-2
"HIV-2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An HIV species related to HIV-1 but carrying different antigenic components and with differing nucleic acid composition. It shares serologic reactivity and sequence homology with the simian Lentivirus SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS and infects only T4-lymphocytes expressing the CD4 phenotypic marker.
| Descriptor ID |
D015498
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.650.589.650.350.410
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| Concept/Terms |
HIV-2- HIV-2
- Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2, Human
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2
- Human immunodeficiency virus 2
- Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type IV
- LAV-2
- HIV-II
- HTLV-IV
- Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type IV
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| 1990 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "HIV-2" by people in Profiles.
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Castro BA, Nepomuceno M, Lerche NW, Eichberg JW, Levy JA. Persistent infection of baboons and rhesus monkeys with different strains of HIV-2. Virology. 1991 Sep; 184(1):219-26.
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Allan JS, Kanda P, Kennedy RC, Cobb EK, Anthony M, Eichberg JW. Isolation and characterization of simian immunodeficiency viruses from two subspecies of African green monkeys. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 1990 Mar; 6(3):275-85.
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Girard MP, Eichberg JW. Progress in the development of HIV vaccines. AIDS. 1990; 4 Suppl 1:S143-50.