Article
Selective pressures of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) during pediatric infection.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2007
Leal Elcio, Janini Mario, Diaz Ricardo S
Abstract excerpt
Pediatric HIV-1 infection presents remarkable features that are distinct from those observed in adult infection. In vertically HIV-1-infected children, the viral load declines more slowly, and the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response emerges late, only after the sixth month of life. This response generally tends to be narrow and less intense than that seen in adults. While the nuances of immune response at the...
Topics
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Codon
- Female
- Gene Products, env
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
