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Quantitative analysis of the antiviral activity of CD8(+) T cells from human immunodeficiency virus-positive
R Salerno-Gonçalves1, W Lu, J M Andrieu
1Laboratoire d'Oncologie et Virologie Moleculaire, Faculté Necker, Hôpital Laennec, 75340 Paris Cedex 07, France.
Journal of Virology
|June 23, 2000
Abstract:
We have measured in 22 asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected patients (10 rapid progressors and 12 slow progressors) the proviral load of CD4(+) T cells homogeneously superinfected by the same dose of a non-syncytium-inducing virus in the presence or in the absence of autologous CD8(+) T cells. We demonstrated that the antiviral activity of CD8(+) T cells was highly predictive of the rate of peripheral CD4(+) T-cell decline.