cercocebus atys การใช้
- In recent years, Hahn and other scientists have traced a related human AIDS virus, HIV-2, to the sooty mangabey monkey ( Cercocebus atys ).
- HIV-2 is closely related to simian immunodeficiency virus endemic in sooty mangabeys ( " Cercocebus atys atys " ) ( SIVsmm ), a monkey species inhabiting the forests of Littoral West Africa.
- Similar research has been undertaken with SIV strains collected from several wild sooty mangabey ( " Cercocebus atys atys " ) ( SIVsmm ) populations of the West African nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast.
- HIV-2 is less transmittable and is largely confined to West Africa, along with its closest relative, a virus of the sooty mangabey ( " Cercocebus atys atys " ), an Old World monkey inhabiting southern Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and western Ivory Coast.