“…The HIV-I strains used in our studies were: strain HTLVIIIs (LAI) and strain RF, originating from a patient of Haitian descent (Starcich et al, 1986), both obtained from R. C. Gallo, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., U.S.A. ; strain HE, isolated by us from a Belgian patient with AIDS, and strain NDK, a highly cytopathic strain (Spire et al, 1989), obtained from J. C. Chermann (INSERM, Marseilles, France). The HIV-2 strain ROD (Clavel et al, 1986) was provided by L. Montagnier, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France and SIVma~251 (Franchini et al, 1987) was received from C. Bruck, SmithKline Beecham, Genval, Belgium.…”