Alloantigen-based AIDS vaccine: revisiting a "rightfully" discarded promising strategy

This report revisits the accidental discovery that protection against simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection in the early successful experimental AIDS vaccine studies in Rhesus macaques was due to antibodies directed against human leukocyte antigens (HLAs). The inactivated virus vaccine appro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shearer, Gene M., Boasso, Adriano
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Faculty of 1000 Ltd 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155155/