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[https://www.nature.com/articles/d42859-018-00008-6 by Zoltan Fehervari 28/11/18 nature portfolio] | [https://www.nature.com/articles/d42859-018-00008-6 by Zoltan Fehervari 28/11/18 nature portfolio] | ||
AIDS was first described as a new disease in 1981 (MILESTONE 1), and the causative lentivirus that came to be known as HIV-1 was identified a couple of years later (MILESTONE 2). However, the origins of HIV-1 and the reasons for its explosive appearance and rapid transformation into a global epidemic remained a mystery. | AIDS was first described as a new disease in 1981 (MILESTONE 1), and the causative lentivirus that came to be known as HIV-1 was identified a couple of years later (MILESTONE 2). However, the origins of HIV-1 and the reasons for its explosive appearance and rapid transformation into a global epidemic remained a mystery. | ||
=====Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/17130 by Feng Gao 4/2/1999 nature] | |||
The human AIDS viruses human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2) represent cross-species (zoonotic) infections1,2,3,4. Although the primate reservoir of HIV-2 has been clearly identified as the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys)2,4,5,6,7, the origin of HIV-1 remains uncertain. | |||
