The agent of malaria has been found in the greater spot-nosed monkey, also known as putty-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans), a small African primate derived from a line different to that of ...

Researchers found that unlike immunodeficiency viruses (IVs) that infect other primates, the IV that infects the greater spot-nosed monkey is able to antagonize human BST-2 to survive and proliferate.

“But in at least one unusual case, a strain of SIV that typically infects the greater spot-nosed monkey can also overcome human defenses, which suggests that SIV potentially infects humans.

Researchers believe the chimpanzee virus is a hybrid of the SIVs naturally infecting two different monkeys, the red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus) and the greater spot-nosed monkey ...

“But in at least one unusual case, a strain of SIV that typically infects the greater spot-nosed monkey can also overcome human defenses, which suggests that SIV potentially infects humans.” To ...

The viruses probably passed into chimpanzees when the apes ate infected monkey meat ... found in the red-capped mangabeys and in the greater spot-nosed monkeys in south-central Africa combined ...

Interestingly, they found that Vpu from SIVgsn possesses two such motifs, and that only one of them is required to inactivate the BST-2 of its natural host, the greater spot-nosed monkey ...

Interestingly, they found that Vpu from SIVgsn possesses two such motifs, and that only one of them is required to inactivate BST-2 of its natural host, the greater spot-nosed monkey, but both to ...