Disentangling human tolerance and resistance against HIV.

In ecology, "disease tolerance" is defined as an evolutionary strategy of hosts against pathogens, characterized by reduced or absent pathogenesis despite high pathogen load. To our knowledge, tolerance has to date not been quantified and disentangled from host resistance to disease in any...

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Main Authors: Roland R Regoes, Paul J McLaren, Manuel Battegay, Enos Bernasconi, Alexandra Calmy, Huldrych F Günthard, Matthias Hoffmann, Andri Rauch, Amalio Telenti, Jacques Fellay, Swiss HIV Cohort Study
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-09-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4165755?pdf=render