Sooty Mangabeys

Subtypes Of HIV - Major Types - HIV-2
... HIV-2 is mostly related to simian immunodeficiency virus endemic in sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys atys) (SIVsmm), a monkey species inhabiting the forests of littoral West Africa ... in humans (HIV-2 groups A and B) are the SIVsmm found in the sooty mangabeys of the Tai forest, in western Ivory Coast ... They all seem to derive from independent transmissions from sooty mangabeys to humans ...