HIV Gag-specific immune responses predict the rate of CD4 decline

AIDS

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1222-1224

  Peretz, Yoav ^a   Tsoukas, Christos M ^a   Bernard, Nicole F ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN P24; CD4 ANTIGEN; GAG PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SECRETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS LOAD; ADOLESCENT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MIDDLE AGED; SECRETION; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENES, GAG; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERFERON TYPE II; LYMPHOPENIA; MIDDLE AGED; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 50949106503     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283021a76     Document Type: Article

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