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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4747
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-4-23
pubmed:abstractText
This report describes serologic evidence for a virus similar to that known as simian T-lymphotropic virus type III of African Green monkeys (STLV-IIIAGM) infecting apparently healthy people in Senegal, West Africa, and the isolation of virus from these individuals. Serum samples from selected healthy West African people showed unusual serologic profiles when tested with antigens of HTLV-III/LAV, the etiologic agent of AIDS, and of STLV-IIIAGM. The samples reacted strongly with all of the major viral antigens of STLV-IIIAGM but showed variable or no reactivity with the major viral antigens of HTLV-III/LAV by radioimmunoprecipitation and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A new human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-IV) isolated from these people was grown in vitro and shown to have retroviral type particles, growth characteristics, and major viral proteins similar to those of the STLV-III and HTLV-III/LAV group of retroviruses. The gp120/160, gp32, p64, p55, p53, p24, and p15 proteins precipitated were the same size as and reactive with STLV-IIIAGM proteins. The serologic data suggest that this virus shares more common epitopes with STLV-IIIAGM than with the prototype HTLV-III/LAV that infects people in the United States and Europe. Further study of this virus and of the origin of the HTLV-III/LAV group of viruses may expand our understanding of the human AIDS virus.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
232
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
238-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Antibodies, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Antigens, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Cross Reactions, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Deltaretrovirus, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Female, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Male, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Microscopy, Electron, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Retroviridae, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Retroviridae Infections, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-Senegal, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:3006256-United States
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
New human T-lymphotropic retrovirus related to simian T-lymphotropic virus type III (STLV-IIIAGM).
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't