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December 4, 1995 8:00 AM UTC

Researchers postulated that evasion of the immune system by HIV may be due to the mutation of viral antigens.

As reported in Science, they observed that substantial inhibition of specific antiviral lysis occurred when cytotoxic T lymphocytes engaged CD4 cells that were acutely infected with HIV bearing natural variant epitopes in reverse transcriptase. ...