Chronic Infection Now Clearly Tied to Immune-System Protein
Saturday, June 13, 2009 - 05:35
in Health & Medicine
The reason deadly infections like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C never go away is because these viruses disarm the body`s defense system. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered that a key immunity protein must be present for this defense system to have a chance against chronic infection.