Simian Immunodeficiency Virus
Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) is a clade of lentivirus that infects primate CD4 cells. SIV can infect at least 33 different nonhuman primate species. [1] SIV can also jump from nonhuman primates to humans and establish new clades. When this happens, the new clade is renamed "Human Immunodeficiency virus" (HIV). SIV is endemic to more than thirty African primate species. Numerous nonhuman primate lentiviruses have been discovered. Many SIVs grow in vitro in human cells. [2]
| Nonhuman primate species and the SIV clades that infect them[3] | ||||
| Species | Common name | Clade | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cercocebus atys | Sooty mangabey | SIVsm | ||
| Macaca species | Macaque | SIVsm | ||
| Cercocebus torquatus | Red-capped mangabey | SIVrcm | ||
| Chlorocebus pygerythrus | Vervet monkey | SIVagmVer | ||
| Chlorocebus tantalus | Tantalus monkey | SIVagmTan | ||
| Chlorocebus sabaeus | Green monkey | SIVagmSab | ||
| Macaca species | Macaque | SIVagmVer | ||
| Cercopithecus albogularis | Sykes' monkey | SIVsyk | ||
| Cercopithecus l'hoesti | L'Hoest’s monkey | SIVlhoest | ||
| Macaca species | Macaque | SIVlhoest | ||
| SIVsun | ||||
| Cercopithecus neglectus | DeBrazza's monkey | SIVdeb | ||
| Colobus guereza | Guereza colobus | SIVcol | ||
| Mandrillus sphinx | Mandrill | SIVmnd | ||
| Mandrillus leucophaeus | Drill | SIVdrl | ||
| Miopithecus talapoin | Talapoin monkey | SIVtal | ||
| Pan troglodytes troglodytes | Central African chimpanzee | SIVcpz | ||
| Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii | East African chimpanzee | SIVcpz | ||
References
edit- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC525168/?tool=pubmed
- ↑ http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/77/3/2214
- ↑ From:J Clin Microbiol. 2004 November; 42(11): 5161–5169