Progression to AIDS in South Africa is associated with both reverting and compensatory viral mutations.

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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Main Authors: Kuan-Hsiang Gary Huang, Dominique Goedhals, Jonathan M Carlson, Mark A Brockman, Swati Mishra, Zabrina L Brumme, Stephen Hickling, Christopher S W Tang, Toshiyuki Miura, Chris Seebregts, David Heckerman, Thumbi Ndung'u, Bruce Walker, Paul Klenerman, Dewald Steyn, Philip Goulder, Rodney Phillips, Bloemfontein-Oxford Collaborative Group, Cloete van Vuuren, John Frater
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3081339?pdf=render

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