Progression to AIDS in South Africa is associated with both reverting and compensatory viral mutations.
We lack the understanding of why HIV-infected individuals in South Africa progress to AIDS. We hypothesised that in end-stage disease there is a shifting dynamic between T cell imposed immunity and viral immune escape, which, through both compensatory and reverting viral mutations, results in increa...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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