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Published online 26 July 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000727-6
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Unnaturally shorn killers
HIV infection hangs around the body by blunting our front-line defences, Eleanor Lawrence reports.
A clearer picture of why the body cannot eliminate the HIV virus even though it may hold it in check for years is beginning to emerge. Anti-viral 'killer' cells in people chronically infected with HIV lose their sting, an international research team now reports.
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