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lentivirus

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lentivirus /len·ti·vi·rus/ (len´tĭ-vi″rus) any virus of the subfamily Lentivirinae.
Lentivirus /Len·ti·vi·rus/ (len´tĭ-vi″rus) a genus of retroviruses that cause persistent infection that typically results in chronic, progressive, usually fatal disease; it includes the human immunodeficiency viruses.
len·ti·vi·rus (lnt-vrs)
n.
A virus of the genus Lentivirus and the family Retroviridae that causes diseases with a long latent period and a slow, progressive course, as HIV.

lentivirus
[len′tivī′rəs]
any member of a genus of retroviruses that have long incubation periods and cause chronic, progressive, usually fatal diseases in humans and other animals. Species include the types of human immunodeficiency virus.

lentivirus
a member of the subfamily lentivirinae.

lentivirus encephalitis
see visna, caprine arthritis-encephalitis.
feline T-lymphotropic lentivirus
see feline immunodeficiency virus.


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Since ongoing lentivirus emergence would be of substantial importance to global public health, we looked for evidence of SIV in a unique collection of plasma from persons with known levels of exposure to the blood and body fluids of NHPs (3).
Indeed, SIV-infected sooty mangabeys may be spared, by their failure to mount significant antiviral immune responses, much of the indirect bystander damage seen in pathogenic primate lentivirus infections that both contributes to accelerated CD4 depletion and compromises host immune regenerative capacity.
Scientists also can engineer the property into other viruses, such as poliovirus, herpesvirus, adenovirus, and a candidate currently being tested, a lentivirus derived from HIV.
 
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