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>If you're going to deliver enough lentivirus into an HIV patient to edit all the HIV out of their T-cells, you're going to provoke a massive immune response. N
by fndjdh 11y ago
>If you're going to deliver enough lentivirus into an HIV patient to edit all the HIV out of their T-cells, you're going to provoke a massive immune response.
Not if the HIV infection has progressed to AIDS. Even with a regular HIV infection the immune response would be diminished.
- astazangasta 11y agoNo; HIV targets CD4+ T cells; you will still have CD8s being activated by the lentivirus all over the body and killing cells in response.