Possible Key to Slow Progression Toward Aids Found

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

HIV-positive people who progress to full blown AIDS slower than others carry a rare immune gene variant. Even among these people the speed of disease progression varies widely. A possible key to that variation is a killer T-cell immune response that targets a section of the HIV protein called IW9.

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