Related Experiment Videos
Isolation and antigenic characterization of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Brazil
B Galvão-Castro1, J Ivo-Dos-Santos, J C Couto-Fernandez
1Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
A retrovirus infecting a Brazilian AIDS patient was isolated and characterized in terms of its reactivity with sera from individuals infected with human immunodeficiency viruses 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). The Western blot analysis revealed that the Brazilian isolate is very similar to the well characterized HIV-1 strain. The serum of the patient from whom the virus was isolated did not react with the 140 kDa envelope glycoprotein specific for HIV-2.