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Review
. 2007 Apr;8(4):329-31.
doi: 10.1038/ni0407-329.

Out of Africa: what can we learn from HIV-2 about protective immunity to HIV-1?

Sarah L Rowland-Jones  1 , Hilton C Whittle
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Review

Out of Africa: what can we learn from HIV-2 about protective immunity to HIV-1?

Sarah L Rowland-Jones et al. Nat Immunol. 2007 Apr.

Abstract

Most people infected with human immunodeficiency virus 2 (HIV-2) do not progress to disease, even though the minority who do cannot be distinguished clinically from HIV-1-infected patients. Here we review what is known about the basis of viral control in HIV-2 infection.

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