HIV-2 is genetically similar to another virus that causes an AIDS-like disease in monkeys.
Two prominent scientists have questioned the significance of a report of a possible new virus causing an AIDS-like disease.
Neither worker has shown any symptoms of an AIDS-like disease.
An experimental vaccine developed from a genetically altered virus has completely protected monkeys against an AIDS-like disease for more than four years, scientists said today.
None of the monkeys have shown any evidence of illness from the AIDS-like disease for up to 55 weeks after the challenge injections, the authors said.
An experimental vaccine derived from a virus that causes an AIDS-like disease in monkeys protected two monkeys from the disease.
Published in 1996, the AIDS-like disease serves as backdrop and plot device to examine human relationships in circumstances of extreme duress.
SIV causes an AIDS-like disease in some monkey species.
Rather, its main significance lies in adding yet another member to the family of viruses that can cause AIDS-like diseases in humans and other primates.
The first recognition of the emergence of an AIDS-like disease occurred in Los Angeles in 1981.