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[https://www.pasteur.fr/en/research-journal/news/40-years-hiv-discovery-first-cases-mysterious-disease-early-1980s by INSTITUT easteur 5/5/23] | [https://www.pasteur.fr/en/research-journal/news/40-years-hiv-discovery-first-cases-mysterious-disease-early-1980s by INSTITUT easteur 5/5/23] | ||
AIDS epidemic is unfortunately still topical with 1.5 million new infections worldwide in 2021. Research on this disease is part of a “tradition” that has now spanned 40 years at the Institut Pasteur, in Paris. This longtime expertise was marked in the first place by the identification of the retrovirus causing AIDS, published in May 1983 in Science. | AIDS epidemic is unfortunately still topical with 1.5 million new infections worldwide in 2021. Research on this disease is part of a “tradition” that has now spanned 40 years at the Institut Pasteur, in Paris. This longtime expertise was marked in the first place by the identification of the retrovirus causing AIDS, published in May 1983 in Science. | ||
=====The evolution of HIV-1 and the origin of AIDS===== | |||
[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2935100/ by NIH] | |||
The major cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We have been using evolutionary comparisons to trace (i) the origin(s) of HIV-1 and (ii) the origin(s) of AIDS. The closest relatives of HIV-1 are simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) infecting wild-living chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in west central Africa. | |||
