
Yet another way HIV fools the immune system uncovered

Washington, July 22 (ANI): Scientists at the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (PARC/MGH) have revealed another mechanism whereby HIV fools the immune system.
According to them, when any HIV patient become infected with a second strain of the virus, the two viral strains can exchange genetic information to create a third, recombinant strain of the virus.
The presence of multiple viral strains, scientifically known as superinfection, frequently causes a loss of immune control of viral levels, they say.
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