Animal models for AIDS.
Animal models will play a central role in AIDS research in the coming years. Important models for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-induced disease in humans include HIV-infected great apes, simian immunodeficiency virus-infected Asian monkeys and infections of ungulates and cats with HIV-related lentiviruses. The nature of the diseases induced by these viruses are described here by Norman Letvin, emphasizing aspects with particular relevance to human HIV infections.
Harvard Medical School, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA 01772.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000276:immunology; D016180:Lentivirus Infections / Q000276:immunology; D016097:Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000276:immunology; D015302:Simian Immunodeficiency Virus / Q000276:immunology