 Retroviruses, Simian
"Retroviruses, Simian" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Classes of retroviruses for which monkeys or apes are hosts. Those isolated from the West African green monkey and the Asian rhesus macaque monkey are of particular interest because of their similarities to viruses causing cancer and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans.
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D015301
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.613.807.805 B04.820.650.805
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Okayama A, Korber B, Chen YM, Allan J, Lee TH, Shioiri S, Tachibana N, Tsuda K, Mueller N, McLane MF, et al. Unusual pattern of antibodies to human T-cell leukemia virus type-I in family members of adult T-cell leukemia patients. Blood. 1991 Dec 15; 78(12):3323-9.
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