simian virus in a sentence
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- Terminology to describe viruses with different hosts has not been approved by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ( ICTV ); however, Pegivirus A viruses have been called HPgV for human pegivirus, SPgV for new world simian pegiviruses, and SPgVcpz for chimpanzee simian virus.
- In the glare of public and government attention over the experiment, the foundation agreed to try and identify a " cleaner " baboon, one freer of simian viruses than those they already provided to the Pittsburgh researchers, said Tom Butler, chief of laboratory animal medicine at the foundation.
- Simian virus 5 and type II human parainfluenza virus express a protein, named " V ", which acts as a substrate receptor and bridges an interaction between DDB1 and STAT proteins ( the structure of the CRL4A SV5V complex is pictured in the inset )-thus inducing STAT1 ubiquitination and degradation
- There is precedent for a simian virus'lurking in polio vaccine : millions of Americans were inadvertently infected with such a virus, SV-40, in the 1950's and early 1960's . ( Fortunately, it was not harmful . ) But in 1967, several laboratory workers in Germany died from the newly discovered Marburg virus after it had been imported in African green monkeys.
- Last year, in his book, " The River, " a British journalist, Edward Hooper, advanced the provocative theory that such a vaccine might have been made with chimpanzee tissue contaminated with an ancestor of the virus that was to cause AIDS . The theory is based in part on the general scientific belief that HIV-1 derives from a simian virus in chimpanzees.