Variability of bio-clinical parameters in Chinese-origin Rhesus macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus: a nonhuman primate AIDS model.

BACKGROUND: Although Chinese-origin Rhesus macaques (Ch RhMs) infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) have been used for many years to evaluate the efficacy of AIDS vaccines and therapeutics, the bio-clinical variability of such a nonhuman primate AIDS model was so far not established. MET...

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Main Authors: Song Chen, Chunhui Lai, Xiaoxiang Wu, Yaozheng Lu, Daishu Han, Weizhong Guo, Linchun Fu, Jean-Marie Andrieu, Wei Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3151272?pdf=render