Table 1.

Clinical charactristics of the animals used in the study. Viral loads are reported as #Gag RNA copy equivalents per ml of blood.

			SIVΔnef Viral Load			WT SIV Viral Load
Animal	Vaccine	Infection	3 wks	20 wks	40 wks	3 wks pc	8 wks pc
211-02	Δnef	Yes	140,000	10	10	11,000	350
225-97	Δnef	No	15,000	3,700	4,400	10	10
256-00	Δnef	Yes	3,300	190	70	12,000	460
286-07	Δnef	Yes	24,000	10	10	7,700	7,500
290-07	Δnef	Yes	18,000	10	10	1,700	340
292-07	Δnef	No	1,300	10	10	10	10
100-98	Control	Yes	NA	NA	NA	23,000,000	6,100,000
120-05	Control	Yes	NA	NA	NA	3,300,000	31,000
289-07	Control	Yes	NA	NA	NA	20,000,000	4,500,000
291-04	Control	Yes	NA	NA	NA	5,900,000	2,300,000
321-04	Control	Yes	NA	NA	NA	18,000,000	950,000
401-00	Control	Yes	NA	NA	NA	8,800,000	48,000