From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 19:47:37 MST
At 10:50 AM 3/8/02 -0500, Pat wrote:
>You can't put the cart before the horse. Somebody first has to isolate the
>candidate virus, prove that it is present in sufficient numbers to cause the
>symptoms in the affected cells, characterize the proteins and genetic
>material, reinfect host cultures, see increased numbers, reisolate and
>compare the proteins and genetic material.
You do know, BTW, that HIV genomes have been sequenced already? See
http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/content/hiv-db/mainpage.html
http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/content/hiv-db/HTML/FAQ.html
Damien Broderick
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