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Disentangling human tolerance and resistance against HIV.
PLoS biology - 1 Sept 2014
Regoes Roland R, McLaren Paul J, Battegay Manuel, Bernasconi Enos, Calmy Alexandra, Günthard Huldrych F, Hoffmann Matthias, Rauch Andri, Telenti Amalio, Fellay Jacques
Abstract excerpt
In ecology, "disease tolerance" is defined as an evolutionary strategy of hosts against pathogens, characterized by reduced or absent pathogenesis despite high pathogen load. To our knowledge, tolerance has to date not been quantified and disentangled from host resistance to disease in any clinically relevant human infection. Using data from the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, we investigated if there is variation in...
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