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Vaccine-induced T cells control reversion of AIDS virus immune escape mutants.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 2007
Fernandez Caroline S, Smith Miranda Z, Batten C Jane, De Rose Robert, Reece Jeanette C, Rollman Erik, Venturi Vanessa, Davenport Miles P, Kent Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Many current-generation human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccines induce specific T cells to control acute viremia, but their utility following infection with escape mutant virus is unclear. We studied reversion to wild type of an escape mutant simian-HIV in major histocompatibility complex-matched vaccinated pigtail macaques. High levels of vaccine-induced CD8+ T cells strongly correlated with maintenance of...
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