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Adaptation to promiscuous usage of chemokine receptors is not a prerequisite for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 disease progression.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Oct 1999
de Roda Husman A M, van Rij R P, Blaak H, Broersen S, Schuitemaker H
Abstract excerpt
Fifty percent of individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) progress to AIDS in the presence of only non-syncytium-inducing (NSI) variants. These rapidly replicating NSI isolates are associated with a high viral load. The question of whether disease progression in the absence of syncytium-inducing (SI) HIV-1 variants is associated with an expansion of the coreceptor repertoire of NSI...
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