Short Communication: Transient Virus Infection and Pathogenesis of a New HIV Type 2 Isolate, UC12, in Baboons
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
- Vol. 14 (1), 79-82
- https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.1998.14.79
Abstract
We have previously shown that baboons (Papio cynocephalus) can be persistently infected with HIV-2 and some baboons progress to an AIDS-like disease with a CD4+ T cell decline, cachexia, alopecia, and Kaposi's sarcoma-like fibromatosis. In this study, we found that a new virus isolate, HIV-2UC12, replicated to high levels in baboon peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in vitro. Three baboons were subsequently inoculated and had plasma viral RNA loads that peaked between 15,000 and 7000 copies/ml at 2 weeks postinfection. Virus was isolated from the PBMCs for up to 6 months. Although PBMCs were subsequently virus culture negative, virus could be recovered from the spleen, lymph nodes, and tonsils, indicating that HIV-2 was sequestered within these lymphoid tissues. HIV-2-associated pathology included follicular lysis, vascular proliferation, and lymphoid depletion. This study indicated that HIV-2uCi2 infection in baboons can cause HIV-associated pathological abnormalities within the lymphatic tissues and that the high level of HIV-2UC12 replication in vitro was not predictive of replication in vivo.Keywords
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