Chronic infection now clearly tied to immune-system protein

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 02:42 in Health & Medicine

The reason deadly infections like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C never go away is because these viruses disarm the body's defence system. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered that a key immunity protein must be present for this defence system to have a chance against chronic infection...

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