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In Search of AIDS-Resistance Genes

ORCID

0000-0001-7353-8301

ResearcherID

N-1726-2015

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Scientific American

ISSN

0036-8733

Publication Date

9-1997

Keywords

HIV-positive persons

Abstract

Focuses on studies conducted on persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and how genes attribute to these persons part or full resistance to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Number of persons who died from AIDS in the United States; Why some individuals escape HIV infection despite being at high risk. INSETS: The mysterious natural history of the resistance allele. ; Other influences on HIV progression.

Volume

277

Issue

3

First Page

44

Last Page

51

Comments

©1997 Scientific American

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