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SUBMITTER: O'Connor SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2865159 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science translational medicine 20100301 22
The importance of a broad CD8 T lymphocyte (CD8-TL) immune response to HIV is unknown. Ex vivo measurements of immunological activity directed at a limited number of defined epitopes provide an incomplete portrait of the actual immune response. We examined viral loads in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-homozygous and MHC-heterozygous Mauritian cynomolgus macaques. Chronic viremia in MHC-homozygous macaques was 80 times that in MHC-heterozygous ...[more]