Isolation of a New Human Retrovirus from West African Patients with AIDS

Clavel, François; Guétard, Denise; Brun‐Vézinet, Françoise; Chamaret, S.; Rey, M.A.; Santos-Ferreira, Marie-Odette; G. Laurent, Anne; Dauguet, C.; Katlama, Christine; Rouzioux, Christine; Klatzmann, David; L Champalimaud, J; Montagnier, Luc

doi:10.1126/science.2425430

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Isolation of a New Human Retrovirus from West African Patients with AIDS

Published in Science • Jul 18, 1986

Authors:

François Clavel

Denise Guétard

Françoise Brun‐Vézinet

Abstract

The etiological agent of AIDS, LAV/HTLV-III, is common in Central Africa but is not endemic in other areas of that continent. A novel human retrovirus, distinct from LAV/HTLV-III, has now been isolated from two AIDS patients from West Africa. Partial characterization of this virus revealed that it h...

Subject

Retrovirus

Virology

Biology

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