Published in AIDS Weekly, August 28th, 2006
Study 1: Preserved CD4+ central memory T cells predict survival in vaccinated SIV-challenged monkeys.
"Vaccine-induced cellular immunity controls virus replication in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected monkeys only transiently, leading to the question of whether such vaccines for AIDS will be effective. We immunized monkeys with plasmid DNA and replication-defective adenoviral vectors encoding SIV proteins and then challenged them with pathogenic SIV," scientists in the United States report.
"Although these monkeys demonstrated a...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-08-28)
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