Published in AIDS Weekly, June 27th, 2005
Study 1: A vaccine was developed against Chinese HIV-1 subtype C.
According to a study from China, "Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clade C is the most prevalent subtype and accounts for approximately 50% of all HIV infections worldwide. In China, the prevalent HIV strains are B'/C subtypes, in which the envelope belongs to subtype C."
"To evaluate potential AIDS vaccines targeting Chinese viral strains in nonhuman primate models, we constructed an infectious simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV)...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2005-06-27)
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