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Prolonged nevirapine in breast-fed babies prevents HIV infection but leads to drug-resistant HIV
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected ...
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Vaccine to cope with viral diversity in HIV
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Apr 27, 2007 |
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The ability of HIV-1 to develop high levels of genetic diversity and acquire mutations to escape immune pressures contributes to our difficulties in producing a vaccine. David Nickle et al present here an efficient algorithm ...
Novel mathematical model predicts new wave of drug-resistant HIV infections in San Francisco
Feb 17, 2008 |
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A mathematical model shows that a new wave of drug-resistant HIV is rising among among men in San Francisco who have sex with men and that this trend will continue over the next few years, according to a new study from the ...
Challenges of HIV-1 subtype diversity
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May 21, 2008 |
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A review article in the New England Journal of Medicine explores the genetic variation of HIV-1 and its implications for preventing and treating the disease. Francine McCutchan, Ph.D., a researcher with the U.S. Military HIV Re ...
Viral recombination another way HIV fools the immune system
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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When individuals infected with HIV become infected with a second strain of the virus, the two viral strains can exchange genetic information, creating a third, recombinant strain of the virus. It is known that the presence ...
HIV isolate from Kenya provides clues for vaccine design
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Jan 02, 2008 |
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Two simple changes in its outer envelope protein could render the AIDS virus vulnerable to attack by the immune system, according to research from Kenya and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published in PLoS Medicine.
New technology opens gateway to studying HIV-specific neutralizing antibodies
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Mar 16, 2009 |
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Many scientists believe a vaccine that prevents HIV infection will need to stimulate the body to make neutralizing antibodies, infection-fighting proteins that prevent HIV from entering immune cells. Previous research has ...
MicroRNAs help control HIV life cycle
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered that specific microRNAs (non-coding RNAs that interfere with gene expression) reduce HIV replication and infectivity in human T-cells. In particular, ...
New strategy proposed for designing antibody-based HIV vaccine
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Jun 14, 2009 |
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WHAT: Most vaccines that protect against viruses generate infection-fighting proteins called antibodies that either block infection or help eliminate the virus before it can cause disease. Attempts to create a vaccine that ...
Researcher refining synthetic molecules to prevent HIV resistance
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Evolving HIV viral strains and the adverse side effects associated with long-term exposure to current treatments propel scientists to continue exploring alternative HIV treatments. In a new study, a University of Missouri ...
New study finds HIV drug can persist in mothers' milk, increasing risk to them and their babies
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Aug 05, 2008 |
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A drug commonly used in the developing world to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child persists in the breast milk and blood of the mothers, putting them and their babies at risk for developing drug-resistant strains ...
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