"Retroviruses, Simian" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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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Below are the most recent publications written about "Retroviruses, Simian" by people in Profiles.
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A human dimorphism resulting from loss of an Alu. Genomics. 1992 Nov; 14(3):590-7.
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The use of primers from highly conserved pol regions to identify uncharacterized retroviruses by the polymerase chain reaction. J Virol Methods. 1990 Apr; 28(1):33-46.