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Nature Medicine  9, 393 - 394 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0403-393

HIV-1: nature's master of disguise

John R. Mascola1 & David C. Montefiori2

1  Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2  Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Correspondence should be addressed to John R. Mascola jmascola@mail.nih.gov
HIV-1 readily mutates to escape the immune response, evolving in ways that allow it to persist in the host. New findings reveal that HIV-1 protects itself from antibodies by putting up a shield of constantly shifting sugar moieties. This shield may be contributing to the poor performance of candidate HIV-1 vaccines.

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