Developing a preventive vaccine against HIV/AIDS: Study opens new possibilities
Monday, May 23, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
The best hope for reducing the incidence of AIDS is a preventive vaccine. The most effective preventive vaccines act by inducing a response based on neutralizing antibodies. Previous studies have shown that HIV-infected patients can produce a broad neutralizing response. To better understand the induction of neutralizing antibodies in these patients, researchers in Spain have now included samples of patients treated with a low level of viral replication.
