Cellular immune responses to HIV - PubMed (original) (raw)

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. 2001 Apr 19;410(6831):980-7.

doi: 10.1038/35073658.

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Cellular immune responses to HIV

A J McMichael et al. Nature. 2001.

Abstract

The cellular immune response to the human immunodeficiency virus, mediated by T lymphocytes, seems strong but fails to control the infection completely. In most virus infections, T cells either eliminate the virus or suppress it indefinitely as a harmless, persisting infection. But the human immunodeficiency virus undermines this control by infecting key immune cells, thereby impairing the response of both the infected CD4+ T cells and the uninfected CD8+ T cells. The failure of the latter to function efficiently facilitates the escape of virus from immune control and the collapse of the whole immune system.

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