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Fitness constraints on immune escape from HIV: Implications of envelope as a target for both HIV-specific T cells and antibody.
Current HIV research - 1 Apr 2006
Peut Viv, Kent Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Sterilising immunity against HIV-1 infection, whilst ideal, appears an unrealistic vaccination goal in the short term. More achievable is slowing the progression to disease and decreasing transmission by mounting strong T cell and neutralising antibody responses to maintain low viral loads. However, in both acute and chronic infection, mutant virus is selected to escape both arms of the adaptive immune system....
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