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Replicative fitness of CCR5-using and CXCR4-using human immunodeficiency virus type 1 biological clones.
Virology - 30 Mar 2006
Ariën Kevin K, Gali Youssef, El-Abdellati Abdelkarim, Heyndrickx Leo, Janssens Wouter, Vanham Guido
Abstract excerpt
CCR5-tropic viruses cause the vast majority of new HIV-1 infections while about half of the individuals infected with HIV-1 manifest a co-receptor switch (CCR5 (R5) to CXCR4 (X4)) prior to accelerated disease progression. The underlying biological mechanisms of X4 outgrowth in AIDS patients are still poorly understood. Although X4 viruses have been associated with increased "virulence" in vivo, in vitro...
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