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Associated Press - September 2, 1986
"It worked even better than we thought it would," said Dr. Preston Marx, a virologist at the university's California Primate Research Center who is head of a 13-member research team.
Dr. Marx said the study, which began last year, compared six vaccinated monkeys with six monkeys that were given no such protection. All were injected with a lethal dose of the simian acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus. The vaccine, like the polio vaccine that was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1954, provokes an immune response by using viruses that have been killed with a formaldehyde solution.
None of the inoculated monkeys have shown any signs of infection so far, Dr. Marx said. Three of the noninoculated monkeys are dead, and the others show signs of exposure.
Dr. Jay Levy, a researcher at the University of California at San Francisco who was one of the first to isolate the human AIDS virus, said, "I think the Davis results represent a very clear step in the direction of determining if a retroviral vaccine will help with AIDS."
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