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This article is part of the supplement: AIDS Vaccine 2009

Open Access Oral presentation

S011-06 OA. HIV specific T cell responses and response patterns associated with viral control independent of classical non-progessor HLA class I alleles

R Zuniga1, B Mothe7, A Llano7, J Ibarrondo7, M Daniels2, M Farfan1, J Suarez1, JJ Szinger2, W Hildebrand3, A Lucchetti1, D Heckerman4, P Goulder7, BD Walker5, J Sanchez6, BT Korber2 and C Brander7*

  • * Corresponding author: C Brander

Author Affiliations

1 IMPACTA, Lima, Peru

2 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

3 University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, OK, USA

4 Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

5 PARC, Boston, MA, USA

6 INMENSA, Lima, Peru

7 Irsicaixa AIDS Research Institute, Badalona, Spain

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Retrovirology 2009, 6(Suppl 3):O3 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-6-S3-O3

Published: 22 October 2009

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Although specific HLA alleles and single epitope-specific CTL responses have been implicated in mediating effective control of viral replication, effective HIV vaccine design will depend on broader assessments of the cellular immunity that overcome host genetic limitations and consider the entire viral proteome.