Yerkes plays vital role in study challenging prevailing view of AIDS in nonhuman primates
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, contributed key comparative data for a landmark study showing African wild chimpanzees infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), an HIV-1-like virus, die prematurely and develop hallmarks of HIV-1 infection and AIDS.