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Macrophage tropism of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 facilitates in vivo escape from cytotoxic T-lymphocyte pressure.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2001
Schutten M, van Baalen C A, Guillon C, Huisman R C, Boers P H, Sintnicolaas K, Gruters R A, Osterhaus A D
Abstract excerpt
Early after seroconversion, macrophage-tropic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) variants are predominantly found, even when a mixture of macrophage-tropic and non-macrophage-tropic variants was transmitted. For virus contracted by sexual transmission, this is presently explained by selection at the port of entry, where macrophages are infected and T cells are relatively rare. Here we explore an...
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