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Rates of HIV immune escape and reversion: implications for vaccination.
Trends in microbiology - 1 Dec 2008
Davenport Miles P, Loh Liyen, Petravic Janka, Kent Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 mutates extensively in vivo to escape immune control by CD8+ T cells (CTLs). The CTL escape mutant virus might also revert back to wild-type upon transmission to new hosts if significant fitness costs are incurred by the mutation. Immune escape and reversion can be extremely fast if they oc...
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