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HIV-specific T cells: strategies for fighting a moving target.
Current HIV research - 1 Dec 2010
McKinnon Lyle R, Kaul Rupert, Herman Melissa, Plummer Francis A, Ball T Blake
Abstract excerpt
HIV vaccine development faces many hurdles, including the failure of empirical approaches, an incomplete understanding of protective immunity, and the extreme genetic diversity of HIV-1. HIV is a moving target in at least two key ways: 1) within an infected individual, years of evolution lead to the formation of quasispecies, and selection of variants with increased fitness, and 2) during the course of the...
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