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SUBMITTER: Pananghat AN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4902358 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pananghat Ambili Nair AN Aggarwal Heena H Prakash Somi Sankaran SS Makhdoomi Muzamil Ashraf MA Singh Ravinder R Lodha Rakesh R Ali Shakir S Srinivas Maddur M Das Bimal Kumar BK Pandey Ravindra Mohan RM Kabra Sushil Kumar SK Luthra Kalpana K
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Disease progression in HIV-1 infected children is faster than in adults. Less than 5% of the infected children maintain stable CD4 counts beyond 7 years of infection and are termed long-term nonprogressors (LTNPs). Delineating the host immune response in antiretroviral naïve (ART) and treated HIV-1 infected children at different disease stages will help in understanding the immunopathogenesis of the disease.A total of 79 asymptomatic, perinatally HIV-1 infected children (50 ART naïve and 29 ART ...[more]