Viruses



Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1)



Taxonomy
(Retro-transcribing viruses)
Order: Unassigned
Family: Retroviridae
Subfamily: Orthoretrovirinae
Genus: Lentivirus
NCBI Taxonomy ID: 11676
ICTV Taxonomy History

Epidemiology
Associated disease: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Host: Human
Distribution: Worldwide
Image courtesy of the National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA / Matthew Gonda

Human immunodeficiency virus 2 (HIV-2)



Taxonomy
(Retro-transcribing viruses)
Order: Unassigned
Family: Retroviridae
Subfamily: Orthoretrovirinae
Genus: Lentivirus
NCBI Taxonomy ID: 11709
ICTV Taxonomy History

Epidemiology
Associated disease: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Host: Human
Distribution: Worldwide
Image courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA / Maureen Metcalfe, Tom Hodge

Other HIV virus online resources
HIV database-The HIV databases contain comprehensive data on HIV genetic sequences and immunological epitopes. The website also gives access to a large number of tools that can be used to analyze and visualize these data.
 The HIV RT and Protease Sequence Database-was designed to represent, store, and analyze the diverse forms of data underlying drug resistance knowledge and to make these data available to researchers studying HIV drug resistance and to clinicians using HIV drug resistance tests.
HIV proteome-To help users to access virus and host genomic data in a useful way, we have created an HIV resource that organizes knowledge and aims to give a broad view of the HIV life cycle and its interaction with human proteins.
 The bNAber-The database provides open, user-friendly access to detailed data on the rapidly growing list of HIV bNAbs, including neutralization profiles, sequences and three-dimensional structures (when available).