Retrovirus and related method used for producing a model for evaluating the antiretroviral effects of drugs and vaccines
AssigneesEmory University, Centers for Disease Control
InventorsHarold M. McClure, Patricia N. Fultz, Daniel C. Anderson
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Abstract
A retrovirus and related method used in producing a model for evaluating the antiretroviral effects of drugs and vaccines includes the steps of removing T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a first simian primate which has developed disease over a first period of time, the disease being attributable to the retrovirus, and placing the retrovirus into a second simian primate to induce acute disease in the second simian primate over a second period of time which is shorter than the first period.
Claims1
SIV/SMM/PBj14, deposited with the American Type Culture Collection under ATCC Accession No. VR 2331, a T-lymphotropic retrovirus taken from a simian primate and capable of inducing acute disease and rapid death upon placement into a second simian primate.
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