Prokaryotic Production of Human Immunodeficiency VirusType 1 Subtype C Tat, Nef and Reverse Transcriptase andInvestigation of Antibody Responses to these proteins inHIV-1 Infected Individuals as well as Macaques Vaccinatedwith SAAVI DNA-C/C2 and SAAV
The purified Tat, Nef and RT recombinant proteins were used as antigens to investigate the prevalence of HIV-1 antibodies in sera of HIV-1 infected people. There was no reactivity in any of the 20 negative control sera in the Western blot assay. Analysis of 481 sera from HIV-1 infected individuals s...
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Format: | Dissertation |
Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3061 |