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Journal of Virology, August 2000, p. 7538-7547, Vol. 74, No. 16
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High Levels of Viral Replication during Primary
Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVagm Infection Are Rapidly and Strongly
Controlled in African Green Monkeys
Ousmane Madiagne
Diop,1
Aïssatou
Gueye,2
Marisa
Dias-Tavares,2,
Christopher
Kornfeld,2
Abdourahmane
Faye,1
Patrick
Ave,3
Michel
Huerre,3
Sylvie
Corbet,2,
Françoise
Barre-Sinoussi,2,* and
Michaela C.
Müller-Trutwin2
Laboratoire de Rétrovirologie, Institut
Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal,1 and
Unité de Biologie des
Rétrovirus2 and Unité
d'Histopathologie,3 Institut Pasteur, Paris,
France
Received 13 December 1999/Accepted 30 April 2000
In contrast to pathogenic human immunodeficiency virus and simian
immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infections, chronic SIVagm infections in
African green monkeys (AGMs) are characterized by persistently low
peripheral and tissue viral loads that correlate with the lack of
disease observed in these animals. We report here data on the dynamics
of acute SIVagm infection in AGMs that exhibit remarkable similarities
with viral replication patterns observed in peripheral blood during the
first 2 weeks of pathogenic SIVmac infections. Plasma viremia was
evident at day 3 postinfection (p.i.) in AGMs, and rapid viral
replication led by days 7 to 10 to peak viremias characterized by high
levels of antigenemia (1.2 to 5 ng of p27/ml of plasma), peripheral DNA
viral load (104 to 105 DNA
copies/106 peripheral blood mononuclear cells [PBMC]),
and plasma RNA viral load (2 × 106 to 2 × 108 RNA copies/ml). The lymph node (LN) RNA and DNA viral
load patterns were similar to those in blood, with peaks observed
between day 7 and day 14. These values in LNs (ranging from 3 × 105 to 3 × 106 RNA copies/106
LN cell [LNC] and 103 to 104 DNA
copies/106 LNC) were at no time point higher than those
observed in the blood. Both in LNs and in blood, rapid and significant
decreases were observed in all infected animals after this peak of
viral replication. Within 3 to 4 weeks p.i., antigenemia was no longer detectable and peripheral viral loads decreased to values similar to
those characteristic of the chronic phase of infection (102
to 103 DNA copies/106 PBMC and 2 × 103 to 2 × 105 RNA copies/ml of plasma).
In LNs, viral loads declined to 5 × 101 to
103 DNA copies and 104 to 3 × 105 RNA copies per 106 LNC at day 28 p.i.
and continued to decrease until day 84 p.i. (<10 to 3 × 104 RNA copies/106 LNC). Despite extensive
viremia during primary infection, neither follicular hyperplasia nor
CD8+ cell infiltration into LN germinal centers was
detected. Altogether, these results indicate that the nonpathogenic
outcome of SIVagm infection in its natural host is associated with a
rapidly induced control of viral replication in response to SIVagm
infection, rather than with a poorly replicating virus or a
constitutive host genetic resistance to virus replication.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité de
Biologie des Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, 25, rue du Dr Roux,
75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. Phone: (33) 1 40 68 87 30. Fax: (33) 1 45 68 89 57. E-mail: fbarre{at}pasteur.fr.

Present address: Hospital Universitàrio Clementino Fraga
F°, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.

Present address: Molecular Virology Laboratory, Statens Serum
Institute, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Journal of Virology, August 2000, p. 7538-7547, Vol. 74, No. 16
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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