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there's a lot of genetic variation in HIV due to natural selection. in the process of replicating they make many different strains -- mostly very similar to on
by mrcactu5 10y ago
there's a lot of genetic variation in HIV due to natural selection. in the process of replicating they make many different strains -- mostly very similar to one another.
here is an HIV sequence database https://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index https://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index https://hivdb.stanford.edu/page/who-resistance-list/ https://hivdb.stanford.edu/page/who-resistance-list/
if you take medicine, get off them and try to get back on your medicine, you may find your medicine no longer works.
that being said I don't quite know what "neutralize" means in this context, but the NIH seems to feel this result has wide applicability.