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Pneumococcus virulence factor sialidase: a new direction in neuro-AIDS research?
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory West Campus, Atlanta GA 30306, USA. arose01@emory.edu
Journal of Neuroimmunology
|January 27, 2004
Abstract:
The purpose of this presentation is to invite consideration by the research community of the hypothesis that sialidase, a virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) and most other opportunistic co-infectious agents associated with HIV infection, advances progression of HIV infection to neuro-AIDS.