Published in Health Insurance Week, September 3rd, 2006
Study 1: HIV proteins have differential value for vaccine design.
"We investigated the interactive relationship between proviral DNA load and virus-specific IFN-gamma-secreting T cell responses in HIV-1C infection. The presence or absence of correlation, and inverse or direct type of correlation, if any, were dependent on targeted viral gene product," scientists in the United States report.
According to the authors, "Responses to Gag p24 or to Pol were associated with lower proviral DNA load. Associations between proviral DNA load and T cell responses...
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