Models of protection against HIV/SIV
Subtitle: avoiding AIDS in humans and monkeys
By: ed. by Gianfranco Pancino, Guido Silvestri, Keith R. Fowke
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780123877154
Subjects: Immunology; Simian immunodeficiency virus; Retrovirus infections; Prevention & control; Virology; HIV infections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural SIV infection :; title: virological aspects  -- Jan Münch and Frank Kirchhoff; title: Natural SIV infection :; title: immunological aspects  -- Béatrice Jacquelin, Roland C. Zahn, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jörn E. Schmitz, Amitinder Kaur and Michaela C. Müller-Trutwin; title: Implications for therapy  -- Ivona Pandrea and Alan L. Landay; title: Are some people protected against HIV infection?  -- Mario Clerici, Mara Biasin and Gene M. Shearer; title: The genital mucosa, the front lines in the defense against HIV  -- T. Blake Ball and Kristina Broliden; title: Host genetics and resistance to HIV-1 infection  -- Ma Luo, Paul J. McLaren and Francis A. Plummer; title: The immune system and resisting HIV infection  -- Keith R. Fowke, Catherine M. Card and Rupert Kaul; title: Definition, natural history and heterogeneity of HIV controllers  -- Asier Sáez-Cirión, Gianfranco Pancino and Olivier Lambotte, for the ANRS CO18 Cohort; title: Residual viremia and viral reservoirs in elite controllers  -- Robert W. Buckheit III and Joel N. Blankson; title: Immune responses associated to viral control  -- Florencia Pereyra and Bruce D. Walker; title: Immune mechanisms of viral control in HIV-2 infection  -- Eirini Moysi, Thushan de Silva and Sarah Rowland-Jones; title: Genetic associations with resistance to HIV-1 infection, viral control and protection against disease -- Jacques Fellay and Amalio Telenti