Positive selection of HIV-1 cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape variants during primary infection.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are thought to play a crucial role in the termination of the acute primary HIV-1 syndrome, but clear evidence for this presumption has been lacking. Here we demonstrate positive selection of HIV-1 proviral sequences encoding variants within a CTL epitope in Nef, a gene...
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Formatua: | Journal article |
Hizkuntza: | English |
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1997
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