THE ORIGINS OF THE AIDS VIRUS
THE ORIGINS OF THE AIDS VIRUS
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DOI：
10.1038/scientificamerican1088-64
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发表时间：
1988-10-01
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
KANKI, PJ
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作者：
ESSEX, M;KANKI, PJ
我们自己的工作解决了第三个问题，即艾滋病病毒艾滋病毒的起源问题。我们应该明确指出，这些研究的目的并不是要找出一个特定地点或一群人携带某种特定的原始病毒，并追踪导致艾滋病大流行的途径。相反，其目的是更多地了解与艾滋病毒有关的病毒，从而了解艾滋病毒是如何进化出导致艾滋病的独特而致命的特性的。这些问题不仅仅是历史问题。在过去的三年里，我们和其他人已经在猴子和人类身上发现了与艾滋病毒有关的逆转录病毒。可以揭示病毒在不同宿主中的不同生物学特性
Our own work has addressed the third problem, that of the origin of the AIDS virus, HIV. The object of these studies, we should make clear, is not to identify a particular site or group of people that harbored a particular an cestral virus and trace a path that led to the AIDS pandemic. Rather, the ob ject is to learn more about viruses related to HIV and so understand how HIV has evolved the unique and deadly properties that lead to AIDS. These questions are of more than historical interest. Within the past three years we and others have iden tified retroviruses related to HIV in monkeys and in human beings. The different biological properties of the viruses in various hosts can reveal