Sivcpz

Origin Of AIDS - Emergence - The Unresolved Issues About HIV Origins and Emergence
... It is clear that the several HIV-1 and HIV-2 strains descend from SIVcpz, SIVgor, and SIVsmm viruses, and that bushmeat practice provides the most plausible venue for cross-species transfer to humans ... in Central Africa, where the primate reservoirs of the related SIVcpz and SIVgor viruses (chimpanzees and gorillas) exist similarly, the HIV-2 groups had their ... It is also unclear why the SIVcpz endemic in the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii (inhabiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and Tanzania ...

Origin Of AIDS - Transmission From Non-humans To Humans - HIV-1 From Chimpanzees and Gorillas To Humans
... to the SIV that infects the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes (SIVcpz), or to the SIV that infects Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), called SIVgor ... people (group N) are clearly derived from SIVcpz strains endemic in Pan troglodytes troglodytes chimpanzee populations living in Cameroon ... countries, is still uncertain, but there is evidence that it is either SIVcpz or SIVgor ...