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Hiv Vaccine Mystery And Viral Shell Disorder, Gerard Kian-Meng Goh, A. Keith Dunker, James A. Foster, Vladimir N. Uversky
Hiv Vaccine Mystery And Viral Shell Disorder, Gerard Kian-Meng Goh, A. Keith Dunker, James A. Foster, Vladimir N. Uversky
Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent for over three decades in the search for an effective human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine with no success. There are also at least two other sexually transmitted viruses, for which no vaccine is available, the herpes simplex virus (HSV) and the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Traditional textbook explanatory paradigm of rapid mutation of retroviruses cannot adequately address the unavailability of vaccine for many sexually transmissible viruses, since HSV and HCV are DNA and non-retroviral RNA viruses, respectively, whereas effective vaccine for the horsefly-transmitted retroviral cousin of HIV, equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), …