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From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Re: Animals as HIV vectors
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In article <1991May6.005925.4374@cs.ucla.edu> jfh@netcom.COM (Jack Hamilton) writes:
   In article <1991May3.105458.7668@cs.ucla.edu> tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. 
   Breuel) writes:
   >That's false. HIV can replicate in several other species besides
   >humans. There is, in fact, increasing evidence that precursors of
   >the HIV virus may have been transmitted to humans independently
   >several times in this century and before.

   I'd be interested in hearing references for your first assertion.  

E.g.: "Isolation and Characterization of HIV from Infected
Chimpanzees", Castro et. al., Proc. Ann. Meet. Am. Assoc. Cancer Res,
29, 1988.

For the 2-month median time to seroconversion that I mentioned
earlier, for example: "Defining the Interval between HIV Infection and
the Appearance of HIV antibody.", Horsburgh et. al., Int. Conf. AIDS,
June 1989.

(NB: these just happen to be two random references that I have handy.
If you want a complete bibliography, you should make the effort and go
to the library yourself.)