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Late escape from an immunodominant cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response associated with progression to AIDS.
Nature medicine - 1 Feb 1997
Goulder P J, Phillips R E, Colbert R A, McAdam S, Ogg G, Nowak M A, Giangrande P, Luzzi G, Morgan B, Edwards A, McMichael A J, Rowland-Jones S
Abstract excerpt
The precise role played by HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in HIV infection remains controversial. Despite strong CTL responses being generated during the asymptomatic phase, the virus persists and AIDS ultimately develops. It has been argued that the virus is so variable, and the virus turnover so great that escape from CTL recognition would occur continually, but so far there is limited evidence for...
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