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HIV/AIDS
Research on HIV/AIDS detailed by scientists at University of Oxford
May 20th, 2009
According to recent research from Compton, the United Kingdom, "Characterization of the immune responses induced in the initial stages of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is of critical importance for an understanding of early viral pathogenesis and prophylactic vaccine design. Here, we used sequential plasma samples collected during the eclipse and exponential viral expansion phases from subjects acquiring HIV-1 ( or, for comparison, hepatitis B virus [HBV] or hepatitis C virus [HCV]) to determine the nature and kinetics of the earliest systemic elevations in cytokine and chemokine levels in each infection." "Plasma viremia was quantitated over...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-20)
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