Anti-Malaria Mutation in Blacks Promotes HIV Infection

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 09:53

SAN ANTONIO -- A mutation that protects some blacks from malaria also makes them more easily infected by HIV, researchers here said.


 

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