Los umbrales de diversidad antigénica y el desarrollo del SIDA

M A Nowak1, R M Anderson, A R McLean

  • 1Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|November 15, 1991
PubMed
Resumen

La diversidad viral en la infección por VIH-1 aumenta con el tiempo, lo que potencialmente abruma el sistema inmunológico. Un modelo matemático sugiere que esta diversidad, no la inmunodeficiencia, causa la progresión de la enfermedad, lo que afecta el tiempo de tratamiento.

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