New developments in HIV-diagnostics including HIV-O.(Research Report)

According to an abstract submitted by the author to the 7th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, held March 26-30, 1995, in Vienna, Austria, "The human immunodeficiency virus seems to be older than the currently observed epidemic in the Western world tells. HIV-1 was isolated first in 1983, HIV-2 in 1985. The existence of these both viruses leads to the conclusion that this kind of divergence cannot be developed within 20 years, or even when taken the human epidemic in Africa within 50 years. Furthermore chimpanzees are naturally infected with a SIV-1, closely related to HIV-1 and sooty mangaby monkeys and other monkeys with SIV-2, closely …