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Impact of immune escape mutations on HIV-1 fitness in the context of the cognate transmitted/founder genome.
Retrovirology - 30 Oct 2012
Song Hongshuo, Pavlicek Jeffrey W, Cai Fangping, Bhattacharya Tanmoy, Li Hui, Iyer Shilpa S, Bar Katharine J, Decker Julie M, Goonetilleke Nilu, Liu Michael K P, Berg Anna, Hora Bhavna, Drinker Mark S, Eudailey Josh, Pickeral Joy, Moody M Anthony, Ferrari Guido, McMichael Andrew, Perelson Alan S, Shaw George M, Hahn Beatrice H, Haynes Barton F, Gao Feng
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BACKGROUND: A modest change in HIV-1 fitness can have a significant impact on viral quasispecies evolution and viral pathogenesis, transmission and disease progression. To determine the impact of immune escape mutations selected by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) on viral fitness in the context of...
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