Viral Recombination: Another Way HIV Fools The Immune System

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 07/22/2008 - 20:45

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 that can evade immune system control.

Now a study from the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital shows that how and where viral strains swap DNA may be determined by the immune response against the original infecting strain.

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