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Studies conducted at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases on HIV/AIDS recently published

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 20th, 2010

A new study, 'SHIV infection protects against heterologous pathogenic SHIV challenge in macaques: a gold-standard for HIV-1 vaccine development,' is now available. "A current debate in the HIV-1 vaccine field concerns the ability of an immunodeficiency virus to elicit a protective response. One argument is that HIV-1 superinfections are frequent in healthy individuals, because virus evades conventional immune surveillance, a serious obstacle to vaccine design," scientists writing in the journal Current Hiv Research report.

"The opposing argument is that protection from superinfection is significant, reflecting a robust immune response that might be harnessed by...

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