Nature Medicine
- 12, 1351 - 1352 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm1206-1351
Gut microbes out of control in HIV infectionBarton F Haynes
The author is at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Circuit Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. haynes002@mc.duke.edu. kanjiHIV-1 infection results in chronic activation of the immune system—a process that is thought to contribute to T-cell depletion and progression to AIDS. Chronic activation is now suggested to occur through a breakdown of the mucosal barrier and stimulation of immune cells by microbial products (pages 1365–1371).
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