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Originally published in Science Express on 25 May 2006
Science 28 July 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5786, pp. 523 - 526
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126531
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Chimpanzee Reservoirs of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1

Brandon F. Keele,1 Fran Van Heuverswyn,2 Yingying Li,1 Elizabeth Bailes,3 Jun Takehisa,1 Mario L. Santiago,1* Frederic Bibollet-Ruche,1 Yalu Chen,1 Louise V. Wain,3 Florian Liegeois,2 Severin Loul,4 Eitel Mpoudi Ngole,4 Yanga Bienvenue,4 Eric Delaporte,2 John F. Y. Brookfield,3 Paul M. Sharp,3 George M. Shaw,1,5 Martine Peeters,2 Beatrice H. Hahn1{dagger}

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the cause of human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a zoonotic infection of staggering proportions and social impact. Yet uncertainty persists regarding its natural reservoir. The virus most closely related to HIV-1 is a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) thus far identified only in captive members of the chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes. Here we report the detection of SIVcpz antibodies and nucleic acids in fecal samples from wild-living P. t. troglodytes apes in southern Cameroon, where prevalence rates in some communities reached 29 to 35%. By sequence analysis of endemic SIVcpz strains, we could trace the origins of pandemic (group M) and nonpandemic (group N) HIV-1 to distinct, geographically isolated chimpanzee communities. These findings establish P. t. troglodytes as a natural reservoir of HIV-1.

1 Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
2 Laboratoire Retrovirus, UMR145, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and Department of International Health, University of Montpellier I, 911 Avenue Agropolis, Boite Postale 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
3 Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK.
4 Projet Prevention du Sida au Cameroun (PRESICA), Boite Postale 1857, Yaoundé, Cameroun.
5 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 720 South 20th Street, KAUL 816, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.

* Present address: Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.

{dagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bhahn{at}uab.edu

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