- Title
HIV: Under pressure.
- Authors
Bird, Lucy
- Abstract
Presents the result of a study on the resistance developed by virus under pressure against cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated antiviral activity due to genotypic changes. Factors that contribute to the pressure in which HIV mutations depend; Reasons behind the emergence of HIV escape mutations; Details of the CTL clones used in the study.
- Subjects
VIRUSES; CELL-mediated cytotoxicity; LYMPHOCYTES; ANTIVIRAL agents; GENETIC mutation
- Publication
Nature Reviews Immunology, 2003, Vol 3, Issue 7, p518
- ISSN
1474-1733
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nri1136