simian immunodeficiency virus

English

Noun

simian immunodeficiency virus (plural simian immunodeficiency viruses)

  1. (virology) a species of retrovirus that causes persistent infections in several species of African non-human primates

Alternative forms
  • SIV (initialism)
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