Quantifying the impact of human immunodeficiency virus-1 escape from cytotoxic T-lymphocytes.

HIV-1 escape from the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response leads to a weakening of viral control and is likely to be detrimental to the patient. To date, the impact of escape on viral load and CD4(+) T cell count has not been quantified, primarily because of sparse longitudinal data and the difficu...

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Main Authors: Ulrich D Kadolsky, Becca Asquith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2973816?pdf=render