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The role of recombination for the coevolutionary dynamics of HIV and the immune response.
PloS one - 18 Feb 2011
Mostowy Rafal, Kouyos Roger D, Fouchet David, Bonhoeffer Sebastian
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary implications of recombination in HIV remain not fully understood. A plausible effect could be an enhancement of immune escape from cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). In order to test this hypothesis, we constructed a population dynamic model of immune escape in HIV and examined the viral-immune dynamics with and without recombination. Our model shows that recombination (i) increases the genetic...
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