Toward an AIDS vaccine: lessons from natural simian immunodeficiency virus infections of African nonhuman primate hosts

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Summary

It is proposed here that HIV vaccine research could greatly benefit from the study of natural simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infections of African nonhuman primates, and how unraveling these evolutionary adaptations may provide clues for new vaccine designs that might induce effective immune responses without the harmful consequences of excessive immune activation.

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review
Published
2009-08-01
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Keywords

Simian immunodeficiency virus, Biology, Immune system, Immunology, Virology

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