Word: retroviruses
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...known major difference between the two diseases. In humans, the output of T lymphocytes, cells that aid the production of antibodies, is suppressed. This is not the case in monkeys. Because of this, some scientists speculate that the two conditions have nothing in common. Others suspect that retroviruses are not involved in either form of AIDS. At the New England Regional Primate Research Center in Southborough, Mass., for example, researchers have independently isolated a retrovirus in monkeys with simian AIDS, but they are not convinced that the virus is the cause of the disease...