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Are HIV Vaccines Fighting Fire with Gasoline?
Models and data suggest that a primed immune system might be more receptive to infection
The Scientist 2004, 18(11):26
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An effective HIV vaccine has yet to be created, and maybe one never will. Scientists working on protective vaccines have mountains of problems with the virus' slippery nature, but perhaps most unnerving is that a vaccine-primed immune system might be more susceptible to infection. Boosting the HIV-specific helper cells may be giving the virus more factories in which to reproduce.
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