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HIV-1 escapes attack by changes in carbohydrate structures.

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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 ...

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