Biological and biomedical implications of the co-evolution of pathogens and their hosts

MEJ Woolhouse, JP Webster, E Domingo… - Nature …, 2002‏ - nature.com
Co-evolution between host and pathogen is, in principle, a powerful determinant of the
biology and genetics of infection and disease. Yet co-evolution has proven difficult to …

T cell dynamics in HIV-1 infection

DC Douek, LJ Picker, RA Koup - Annual review of immunology, 2003‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract In the absence of antiretroviral treatment, HIV-1 establishes a chronic, progressive
infection of the human immune system that invariably, over the course of years, leads to its …

HIV preferentially infects HIV-specific CD4+ T cells

DC Douek, JM Brenchley, MR Betts, DR Ambrozak… - Nature, 2002‏ - nature.com
HIV infection is associated with the progressive loss of CD4+ T cells through their
destruction or decreased production,. A central, yet unresolved issue of HIV disease is the …

Long-term antiretroviral treatment initiated at primary HIV-1 infection affects the size, composition, and decay kinetics of the reservoir of HIV-1-infected CD4 T cells

MJ Buzon, E Martin-Gayo, F Pereyra, Z Ouyang… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - journals.asm.org
Initiation of antiretroviral therapy during the earliest stages of HIV-1 infection may limit the
seeding of a long-lasting viral reservoir, but long-term effects of early antiretroviral treatment …

[ספר][B] HIV and the pathogenesis of AIDS.

JA Levy - 1994‏ - cabidigitallibrary.org
This book grew out of a scientific review, originally published in Microbiological Reviews. It
has been updated and expanded-now citing more than 2100 references (100 pages of the …

Analysis of Total Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Specific CD4+ and CD8+ T-Cell Responses: Relationship to Viral Load in Untreated HIV Infection

MR Betts, DR Ambrozak, DC Douek… - Journal of …, 2001‏ - journals.asm.org
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific T-cell responses are thought to play a key role
in viral load decline during primary infection and in determining the subsequent viral load …

Comprehensive epitope analysis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific T-cell responses directed against the entire expressed HIV-1 genome …

MM Addo, XG Yu, A Rathod, D Cohen… - Journal of …, 2003‏ - journals.asm.org
Cellular immune responses play a critical role in the control of human immunodeficiency
virus type 1 (HIV-1); however, the breadth of these responses at the single-epitope level has …

The T-cell response to HIV

B Walker, A McMichael - Cold Spring …, 2012‏ - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
HIV is a disease in which the original clinical observations of severe opportunistic infections
gave the first clues regarding the underlying pathology, namely that HIV is essentially an …

Sequential deregulation of NK cell subset distribution and function starting in acute HIV-1 infection

G Alter, N Teigen, BT Davis, MM Addo, TJ Suscovich… - Blood, 2005‏ - ashpublications.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are critical in the first-line defense against viral infections. Chronic
HIV-1 infection leads to a perturbation in the NK cell compartment, yet the kinetics of this …

Evolution and transmission of stable CTL escape mutations in HIV infection

PJR Goulder, C Brander, Y Tang, C Tremblay… - Nature, 2001‏ - nature.com
Increasing evidence indicates that potent anti-HIV-1 activity is mediated by cytotoxic T
lymphocytes (CTLs),,; however, the effects of this immune pressure on viral transmission and …