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The evolutionary dynamics of HIV-1 quasispecies and the development of immunodeficiency disease.
AIDS (London, England) - 1 Nov 1990
Nowak M A, May R M, Anderson R M
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This paper presents a theory to explain the development of immunodeficiency disease after a long and variable incubation period of infection with HIV-1. Two assumptions are central to the theory: (1) mutation via reverse transcription during viral replication can generate viral strains resistant to neutralization by antibodies specific to earlier mutants in a particular host; (2) the virus can kill the...
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