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Evidence for the HIV-1 phenotype switch as a causal factor in acquired immunodeficiency.
Nature medicine - 1 Mar 1998
Glushakova S, Grivel J C, Fitzgerald W, Sylwester A, Zimmerberg J, Margolis L B
Abstract excerpt
Both cellular and humoral immunodeficiency develop in vivo after prolonged infection with HIV-1, but the mechanisms are unclear. Initial infection with HIV-1 is transmitted by macrophage (M)-tropic/non-syncytia-inducing (NSI) viruses, which hyperactivate the immune system, and, in one view, cause immunodeficiency by "exhaustion" of lymphoid tissue. An alternative hypothesis is that immunodeficiency is caused by...
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