Species Targeted

Virus Used

Disadvantages

Chimpanzees

HIV-1

  • Limited Availability of animal
  • Costly approach

 

 

Macaques

 

SIV

  • Different envelope sequences as compared to HIV-1
  • Envelope epitopes were also different

 

SHIV

  • The difference in the kinetics of the immune response when used as a vaccine when compared to HIV-1 immune response kinetics
Table 1: Problems using nonhuman primates during vaccine development.