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From: rjh1@midway.uchicago.edu (robert j hinde)
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Subject: seroconversion time and animal studies
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Date: 3 May 91 18:25:00 GMT
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The recent discussion of how long it takes to seroconvert after
one is exposed to HIV made me wonder if any animal studies had
been done on this subject.  For example, one might inject SIV
into a large number of monkeys and then see how long it takes
each one to seroconvert.  I know that these observations would
not be directly transferable to humans because of differences
between HIV and SIV and between monkeys and humans, but they
still might provide some interesting information, if only about
the spread of seroconversion times.

So, my questions in a nutshell are:
 
(1) Are such studies feasible, and if so, have they been done?
(2) Is anything known about how informative such studies would
    be with respect to the seroconversion time question in humans?