Explain the difference between (A) elite controllers and (B) elite neutralizers
What will be an ideal response?
A. Elite controllers, who make up about 1 in 300 of HIV-infected people, suppress their infection so effectively that HIV RNA cannot be detected in blood samples using the standard clinical assay. They live healthy lives for decades. Genome analysis indicates that certain HLA-B types are associated with elite and viremic (low viremia) controllers, where 67% of controllers have HLA-B*13, -B*27, -B*57 or -B*58, compared to only 37% of progressors who had these HLA-B types.
B. Elite neutralizers, who make up about 1 in 500 of HIV-infected people, make broadly neutralizing antibodies after exposure to several HIV strains. These antibodies possess many more somatic mutations than other antibodies, indicating that B cells making the broadly neutralizing antibodies have undergone many different episodes of antigen-mediated somatic mutation. These antibodies are capable of neutralizing many strains of HIV.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word