An evaluation of HIV elite controller definitions within a large seroconverter cohort collaboration.

Understanding the mechanisms underlying viral control is highly relevant to vaccine studies and elite control (EC) of HIV infection. Although numerous definitions of EC exist, it is not clear which, if any, best identify this rare phenotype.We assessed a number of EC definitions used in the literatu...

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Main Authors: Ashley D Olson, Laurence Meyer, Maria Prins, Rodolphe Thiebaut, Deepti Gurdasani, Marguerite Guiguet, Marie-Laure Chaix, Pauli Amornkul, Abdel Babiker, Manjinder S Sandhu, Kholoud Porter, CASCADE Collaboration in EuroCoord
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3904947?pdf=render