Published in AIDS Weekly, February 13th, 2006
Study 1: African American children vertically infected with HIV-1 have higher Gag responses than Hispanic children.
"The progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease and plasma levels of HIV may differ between racial groups. We compared HIV-specific T cell responses between vertically HIV-1-infected Hispanic and African American children," investigators in the United States report.
"Subjects were matched for sex, age, viral load, and CD4+ cell count in 18 pairs; T cell responses were measured by cytokine-enhanced...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-02-13)
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