Understanding long-term nonprogressors - September 2006. What can AIDS vaccine researchers learn from studying people who are HIV infected but progress more slowly to AIDS?

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2006
Document Type:
Briefing
Theme:
Health
Authors:
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Abstract

Studies of people who have HIV but have not progressed to AIDS within a decade are outlined. The possible ways in which the immune systems of these people could be keeping the disease in check are given and a new study examining the genomes of several thousand non-progressors is described.

Citation

Vax Online Primer

Published 1 January 2006
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