SIV vpx is essential for macrophage infection but not for development of AIDS.

SIV vpx is essential for macrophage infection but not for development of AIDS.

Analysis of rhesus macaques infected with a vpx deletion mutant virus of simian immunodeficiency virus mac239 (SIVΔvpx) demonstrates that Vpx is essential for efficient monocyte/macrophage infection in vivo but is not necessary for development of AIDS. To compare myeloid-lineage cell infection in mo...

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Main Authors: Susan V Westmoreland, A Peter Converse, Kasia Hrecka, Mollie Hurley, Heather Knight, Michael Piatak, Jeffrey Lifson, Keith G Mansfield, Jacek Skowronski, Ronald C Desrosiers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3897363?pdf=render

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