Modeling the effects of drugs of abuse on within-host dynamics of two HIV species.

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Injection drug use is one of the most significant risk factors associated with contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and drug users infected with HIV suffer from a higher viral load and rapid disease progression. While replication of HIV may result in many mutant viruses that can escape recognition of the host's immune response, the presence of morphine (a drug of abuse) can decrease the viral mutation...

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