Volume 13, No 1, Feb 2003

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 13 Issue 1, February 2003: 1-7

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New insights into the immunology and evolution of HIV

Justin STEBBING,

Steve PATTERSON, Frances GOTCH Department of Immunology, Division of Investigative Science, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road, London SW10 9NH, United Kingdom Correspondence:

Fewer than one million HIV infected individuals are currently receiving anti-retroviral therapy. The limitations of such treatment have underscored the need to develop more effective strategies to control the spread and pathogenesis of HIV. Typically, naturally occurring protective immune responses provide the paradigm for such development. It is now clear however that HIV can utilise the millieu of an activated immune system to its own replicative advantage. Mobilisation of the immune response, intended to thwart the virus, may instead fuel its dissemination, `immune escape' and spread. The immense genetic variation of HIV contributes to lack of immune control and the development of progressive disease in the majority of infected, untreated individuals. Further delineation of the intimate interactions between the HIV and the immune system will be critical and recent advances in this direction are discussed.

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