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“super” cytotoxic t-lymphocyte clones for control of hiv infection

One of the hallmarks of HIV infection is rapid mutation and subsequent “escape” from adaptive immune responses–in particular the CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response, which has been shown to be very important in the control of HIV replication in vivo.  Despite the ultimate failure of CTL responses to keep up with the escape mutations, CTL [...]