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HIV/AIDS
Research from G.J. Kotwal and colleagues has provided new data on HIV/AIDS
August 20th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Vaccine, "Genetic diversity and hypermutation contribute to difficulties in developing a vaccine against viruses like HIV and influenza. There are currently no known immune correlates of protection against HIV." "This has made the development of a vaccine against HIV that would provide sterilizing immunity in the near future an impossible task. The abandonment of a recent AIDS vaccine human trial due to a failure to elicit a protective sterilising immune response confirms that empirical attempts to develop a vaccine may result in failures. Also the difficulty in predicting the next pandermic strain of...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-08-20)
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