| SIS | semantic indexing system; serotinin irritation syndrome; simian sarcoma; simulator-induced syndrome;... |
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| SISV, SiSV | simian sarcoma virus |
| SIV | simian immunodeficiency virus; Sprague-Dawley-Ivanovas [rat] |
| SIVagm | simian immunodeficiency virus from African green monkeys |
| SIVMAC | simian immunodeficiency virus of macaques |
| simian malaria | Plasmodial infection of monkeys and apes, as with human malaria, transmitted chiefly by anopheline mosquitoes; a number of Plasmodium species are responsible, with Southeast Asia and Africa being the apparent centres of evolution; among the 20 plasmodial agents described from nonhuman primates, some resemble and induce a malarial infection similar to those caused by the four species of Plasmodium from humans, from which the agents of human malaria appear to be derived. Synonym: monkey malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| simian vacuolating virus No. 40 | A small (40 to 45 nm) DNA virus of the genus Polyomavirus, family Papovaviridae; the cause of seemingly inapparent infections in monkeys, especially rhesus, and a common contaminant of monkey cell cultures; the virus may cause inapparent infection in humans and may be excreted in stools of children for several weeks; it can produce fibrosarcoma in suckling hamsters, and transformation may occur in human diploid cells; it may also form "hybrid" virus in cells also infected with certain adenoviruses. Synonym: simian virus 40. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simian virus | Any of a number of virus's, belonging to various families, isolated from monkeys or from cultures of monkey cells. Synonym: vacuolating virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Simian Virus 40 | See: SV40. (18 Nov 1997) |