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2003 JUN 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HIV-1 escapes attack by changing the structure of its carbohydrate moieties.
According to recent research from the United States, "HIV-1 readily mutates to escape the immune response, evolving in ways that allow it to persist in the host. New findings reveal that HIV-1 protects itself from antibodies by putting up a shield of constantly shifting sugar moieties."
"This shield may be contributing to the poor performance of candidate HIV-1 vaccines," concluded John R. Mascola at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and David C. Montefiori at Duke University.
Mascola and Montefiori published their study in Nature Medicine ...
Source: HighBeam Research, HIV-1 escapes attack by changes in carbohydrate structures.