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New findings indicate that the primate lentiviruses SIV and, by analogy, HIV become more virulent upon in vivo evolution, with accelerated progression to AIDS (pages 535–541).
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Hirsch, V. Evolution of the fittest ends in tragedy. Nat Med 5, 488–489 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/8369
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