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AIDScience Report: Microbicides to prevent heterosexual transmission of HIV: Ten years down the road By Janneke van de Wijgert and Christiana Coggins  [Full text article]  [About AIDScience articles]  [See recent AIDScience articles]

Hot News: Good news and not so good ones for AIDS vaccines. In research reported in Nature, scientists at Merck found that animals immunized with an adenoviral vector survived a usually lethal challenge with SHIV. The vaccine did not prevent infection but reportedly reduced the virus almost 1000-fold in vaccinated animals. But in a similar study by scientists at Harvard Medical School, a mutant and lethal form of the virus was reported to develop in monkeys vaccinated and protected a year ago, killing one of the animals. Nature 415:331 [Read abstract] Nature 415:335 [Read abstract] Is this a step back for AIDS vaccines? Voice your opinion.  [Go to dEbates]

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