HIV/AIDS

Study results from University of Strasbourg broaden understanding of HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, August 17th, 2009

"The ability of pathogens to escape the host's immune response is crucial for the establishment of persistent infections and can influence virulence. Recombination has been observed to contribute to this process by generating novel genetic variants," researchers in Strasbourg, France report.

"Although distinctive recombination patterns have been described in many viral pathogens, little is known about the influence of biases in the recombination process itself relative to selective forces acting on newly formed recombinants. Understanding these influences is important for determining how recombination contributes to pathogen genome and proteome evolution. Most previous...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-08-17)

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