Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USAChief, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Comparative Pathology, Emory University

"Researchers in immunology, virology, microbiology, genetics, and other medical specialties from Europe and North America first overview the distribution and biological properties of primate lentiviruses and the emergence of HIV, including features of HIV-1 that distinguish it from HIV-2 and SIVs that replicate efficiently in African non-human primates without causing disease, and the development of these properties and their potential roles in the pathogenesis of AIDS. They then discuss immunological aspects of SIV in monkeys studied the most with respect to correlates of protection against AIDS, implications for therapy, whether some people are protected against infection, the genital mucosa in transmission, genetic factors contributing to resistance or susceptibility, the immune mechanisms that correlate with resistance, HIV controllers and viral factors involved, adaptive and immune responses associated with controllers, immune mechanisms of viral control in HIV-2 infection, and the genetic basis of protection." --Reference and Research Book News, Inc.

• Simian models of non-pathogenic SIV infection Natural SIV infection: virological aspectsNatural SIV infection: immunological aspectsPrevention Implications for therapy HIV-1-exposed seronegative individuals Are some people protected against HIV infection? The genital mucosa, the front lines in the defense against HIVHost genetics and resistance to HIV-1 infectionThe immune system and resisting HIV infection HIV-1-controllers Definition, natural history and heterogeneity of HIV-controllers Residual viremia and viral reservoirs in elite controllers Immune responses associated to viral control Immune mechanisms of viral control in HIV-2 infection Genetic basis of protection against HIV Genetic associations with resistance to HIV-1 infection, viral control and protection against disease Conclusions

Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USAChief, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Comparative Pathology, Emory University

"Researchers in immunology, virology, microbiology, genetics, and other medical specialties from Europe and North America first overview the distribution and biological properties of primate lentiviruses and the emergence of HIV, including features of HIV-1 that distinguish it from HIV-2 and SIVs that replicate efficiently in African non-human primates without causing disease, and the development of these properties and their potential roles in the pathogenesis of AIDS. They then discuss immunological aspects of SIV in monkeys studied the most with respect to correlates of protection against AIDS, implications for therapy, whether some people are protected against infection, the genital mucosa in transmission, genetic factors contributing to resistance or susceptibility, the immune mechanisms that correlate with resistance, HIV controllers and viral factors involved, adaptive and immune responses associated with controllers, immune mechanisms of viral control in HIV-2 infection, and the genetic basis of protection." --Reference and Research Book News, Inc.

• Simian models of non-pathogenic SIV infection Natural SIV infection: virological aspectsNatural SIV infection: immunological aspectsPrevention Implications for therapy HIV-1-exposed seronegative individuals Are some people protected against HIV infection? The genital mucosa, the front lines in the defense against HIVHost genetics and resistance to HIV-1 infectionThe immune system and resisting HIV infection HIV-1-controllers Definition, natural history and heterogeneity of HIV-controllers Residual viremia and viral reservoirs in elite controllers Immune responses associated to viral control Immune mechanisms of viral control in HIV-2 infection Genetic basis of protection against HIV Genetic associations with resistance to HIV-1 infection, viral control and protection against disease Conclusions

Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USAChief, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Comparative Pathology, Emory University

"Researchers in immunology, virology, microbiology, genetics, and other medical specialties from Europe and North America first overview the distribution and biological properties of primate lentiviruses and the emergence of HIV, including features of HIV-1 that distinguish it from HIV-2 and SIVs that replicate efficiently in African non-human primates without causing disease, and the development of these properties and their potential roles in the pathogenesis of AIDS. They then discuss immunological aspects of SIV in monkeys studied the most with respect to correlates of protection against AIDS, implications for therapy, whether some people are protected against infection, the genital mucosa in transmission, genetic factors contributing to resistance or susceptibility, the immune mechanisms that correlate with resistance, HIV controllers and viral factors involved, adaptive and immune responses associated with controllers, immune mechanisms of viral control in HIV-2 infection, and the genetic basis of protection." --Reference and Research Book News, Inc.

• Simian models of non-pathogenic SIV infection Natural SIV infection: virological aspectsNatural SIV infection: immunological aspectsPrevention Implications for therapy HIV-1-exposed seronegative individuals Are some people protected against HIV infection? The genital mucosa, the front lines in the defense against HIVHost genetics and resistance to HIV-1 infectionThe immune system and resisting HIV infection HIV-1-controllers Definition, natural history and heterogeneity of HIV-controllers Residual viremia and viral reservoirs in elite controllers Immune responses associated to viral control Immune mechanisms of viral control in HIV-2 infection Genetic basis of protection against HIV Genetic associations with resistance to HIV-1 infection, viral control and protection against disease Conclusions