Infection of a Laboratory Worker with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus.

The article offers information on a laboratory worker with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection and a study done to investigate the SIV infection in humans. It reports that SIVs are primate lentiviruses that are biologically related to human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs), and mentions their use in studying the pathogenesis of AIDS and developing an HIV vaccine. It states the development of antibodies that cross-reactive to HIV-2 and SIV in a laboratory worker, after percutaneous exposure to blood, and discusses the studies done on laboratory researchers for HIV and SIV infections. It also discusses the methodology used in the study and presents the medical history of the worker. Also presented are the study's results along with a discussion on SIV infections in humans.