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HIV/AIDS
Report summarizes HIV/AIDS study findings from C.M. Swanson and co-researchers
August 14th, 2008
"Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) is the etiologic agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS) and the prototypic member of the lentivirus genus of retroviruses. Lentivirus infections are considered as chronic or ''slow'' and, when pathogenic ( most notably, HIV-1 infection of humans), are associated with severe immunological and neurological dysfunction," researchers in London, the United Kingdom report. "HIV-1 has nine genes, with only the gag, pol, and env genes common to all replication-competent retroviruses. The pol gene encodes two enzymes that define the replicative strategy of the retrovirus: reverse transcriptase (RT) copies the viral RNA...
Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2008-08-14)
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