The X awakens: multifactorial ramifications of sex-specific differences in HIV-1 infection

Sex-specific differences have been described for a variety of infectious and autoimmune diseases. In HIV-1 infection women present with significantly lower viral loads during early infection, but during chronic infection women progress faster to AIDS for the same amount of viral replication. Recent...

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Main Authors: Sven Hagen, Marcus Altfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-04-01
Series:Journal of Virus Eradication
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2055664020304738