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HIV/AIDS
HIV adapts to escape immune response
March 25th, 2009
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) adapts so well to the body's defense system that any successful AIDS vaccine must keep pace with the ever-changing immunological profile of the virus, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Oxford in England. A new study better describes HIV's ability to adapt by spelling out at least 14 different "escape mutations" that help keep the virus alive after it interacts genetically with immunity molecules that normally attack HIV. The researchers analyzed genetic data from more than 2,800 HIV-infected patients on five continents. The findings are published...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-03-25)
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