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Conflicting Selection Pressures Will Constrain Viral Escape from Interfering Particles: Principles for Designing Resistance-Proof Antivirals.
PLoS computational biology - 1 May 2016
Rast Luke I, Rouzine Igor M, Rozhnova Ganna, Bishop Lisa, Weinberger Ariel D, Weinberger Leor S
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The rapid evolution of RNA-encoded viruses such as HIV presents a major barrier to infectious disease control using conventional pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Previously, it was proposed that defective interfering particles could be developed to indefinitely control the HIV/AIDS pandemic; in individual patients, these engineered molecular parasites were further predicted to be refractory to HIV's mutational...
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