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Page written in the 80's?

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Same author as below... Ok, I got that far before and wanted to make a change...now I realise that when I have time I want to make significant edits to this - no offence to previous authors. To give some warning and invite discussion... the term serogroups for lentiviruses is wildly inappropriate in my opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.184.92 (talk) 22:11, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

'slow virus'

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I have removed the statement 'slow virus' from the introduction. The Latin translation is given along with the major point that they have a long incubation period... they are not 'slow' in any other respect, and in fact it is a nonsense statement.

Lentivirus transmission

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The ICTV database seems to contradict itself. Equine infectious anemia is transmitted by an arthropod vector, yet ICTV says lentiviruses are not transmitted by vectors. ICTV does list EIAV as a lentivirus and says it can be transmitted by a vector. Should we change this article to reflect this, or leave it? --Joelmills 23:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In general, most lentiviruses may not be spread by vectors, but there could be an exception to the rule (and in natural systems there usually are.) That situation is not necessarily a self-contradiction. Argantael (talk) 21:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC) Argantael[reply]

Morphology

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This section consists of several sentence fragments strung together with semicolons. Is there a reason for this, or can someone make it into grammatically correct English?Im.a.lumberjack 01:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You should change this yourself, because Wikipedia is not just other people's responsibility. 173.183.79.81 (talk)

What is lentivirus?

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There is some confusion about what a lentivirus is. Early it is regarded as a grouping of viruses, whereas later it seems to be a single virus. My primary concern is under the physical properties section. I know HIV genome is a monomer consisting of 2 molecules of sense ssRNA, but don't know enough about the others to make the correction. Similarly, HIV-1 has 15 proteins, not 11. So either I'm not understanding what a lentivirus is, or the specifics should be tossed and left to the individual pages. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serafap (talkcontribs) 19:48, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Better choice of wording

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With the increasing use of pseudotyped lentivirus as a tool in molecular biology, I think the use of the term "deadly" should not be used to describe all lentiviruses lest the general population think that this is a central facet of lentiviral identity. I don't have the ability to re-write this nicely for a page though and will just leave my thoughts here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.96.86.124 (talk) 05:33, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

origin

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origin of the deficiency — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.248.104.2 (talk) 11:09, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]