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Increasingly successful highly active antiretroviral therapy delays the emergence of new HLA class I-associated escape mutations in HIV-1.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jun 2012
Knapp David J H F, Brumme Zabrina L, Huang Sheng Yuan, Wynhoven Brian, Dong Winnie W Y, Mo Theresa, Harrigan P Richard, Brumme Chanson J
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BACKGROUND: HLA class I-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) exert strong selective pressures on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), leading to escape mutations compromising virologic control. Immune responses continue to shape HIV-1 evolution after HAART initiation, but the extent and rate at which this occurs remain incompletely quantified. Here, we...
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