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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 humans are exposed to a plethora of primate lentiviruses through blood or body fluids during hunting, butchering, eating bushmeat, and keeping primates as pets (3), the potential exists for zoonotic transmission of diverse primate lentiviruses in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including the Congo River basin (4).
HIV Pathogenesis: Recent Advances in the Biology and Pathogenesis of Primate Lentiviruses, April 5-11, Keystone, Colorado http://keystonesymposia.
HIV is similar in genetic structure and morphology to other lentiviruses that often cause immunodeficiency in their animal hosts in addition to slow, progressive wasting disorders, neurodegeneration and death.
 
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