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Harvard Medical School, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA 01722.
Animal models will be essential in developing a vaccine to protect against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. While HIV-1 infects great apes, it induces no disease in these species. Some simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) isolates cause an AIDS-like disease in macaque monkeys. The SIV/macaque model has proven a valuable system for exploring AIDS pathogenesis and assessing strategies for HIV vaccination. Studies in nonhuman primates have shown that a variety of vaccine approaches transiently elicit immunity which can protect against a very small intravenous challenge of cell-free virus. Longstanding immunity which protects against cell-associated or mucosal virus challenge has not yet been achieved. Nonhuman primate models will be essential for achieving this goal.
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