7. SIV is the abbreviation of: Simian immunodeficiency virus Siluridae immunodeficiency virus Synodontidae immunodeficiency virus None of the above
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a lentivirus that infects a variety of Old World nonhuman primates and produces a clinical syndrome in rhesus monkeys and other susceptible macaque species with many important parallels to AIDS.