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HIV/AIDS
New HIV/AIDS research reported from Wadsworth Center
July 9th, 2008
According to recent research published in the Jaids - Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, "Transition from long-term nonprogressive infection to progressive HIV-1 disease presents an opportunity to investigate pathogenesis in a defined immunogenetic background. We studied a mate long-term nonprogressor (LTNP) who remained asymptomatic and viremic and had normal CD4 T-cell counts without antiretroviral therapy for > 18 years and then experienced a transition to disease progression." "We analyzed the complete HIV-1 genomic RNA sequence from plasma and cellular immune responses to predefined human leukocyte antigen-matched autologous viral peptides...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-07-09)
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