Systemic chronic immune activation is considered today as the driving force of CD 4+ T‐cell depletion and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A residual chronic immune …
Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) reduces HIV-associated morbidities and mortalities but cannot cure the infection. Given the difficulty of eradicating HIV-1, a functional …
Many species of African nonhuman primates are naturally infected with simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) in the wild and in captivity. In contrast to HIV-infected …
Zoonotic viruses, such as HIV, Ebola virus, coronaviruses, influenza A viruses, hantaviruses, or henipaviruses, can result in profound pathology in humans. In contrast, populations of the …
D Sauter, F Kirchhoff - Cell host & microbe, 2019 - cell.com
HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, has a complex evolutionary history involving several cross- species transmissions and recombination events as well as changes in the repertoire and …
M Paiardini, B Cervasi, E Reyes-Aviles, L Micci… - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
Naturally simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-infected sooty mangabeys do not progress to AIDS despite high-level virus replication. We previously showed that the fraction of CD4+ …
M Muenchhoff, E Adland, O Karimanzira… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
Disease-free infection in HIV-infected adults is associated with human leukocyte antigen– mediated suppression of viremia, whereas in the sooty mangabey and other healthy natural …
The design of an effective AIDS vaccine has eluded the efforts of the scientific community to the point that alternative approaches to classic vaccine formulations have to be considered …
MP Girard, S Osmanov, OM Assossou, MP Kieny - Vaccine, 2011 - Elsevier
The development of a safe, effective and globally affordable HIV vaccine offers the best hope for the future control of the HIV-1 pandemic. Since 1987, scores of candidate HIV-1 …