War in the Body

1. Introduction
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Part I. The Biology, Modeling, and Predictions

2. The HIV Infection Model
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3. The CTL Model
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4. Simulating an HIV Infection In Vivo

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5. The Escape Formula
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6. Early and Late Escapes
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7. Understanding Escape
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8. More Topics About Escape from Immune Control
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9. HIV’s Cloaking Device: The Fascinating Story of Nef
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10. Retroviral Sex and Escape
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11. The N

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Business, Again, and a Proposed Experiment
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12. Can a T-Cell Vaccine Block Escape?
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13. The STEP Trial, Monkey Trials, and the Future of T-Cell Vaccines
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14. Afterword: The RV144 Trial and the Current Status of HIV Vaccine Research
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Part II. The Mathematics

15. Short Tutorial on Dynamical Models
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16. Deterministic Modeling: A Cautionary Example
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17. The Infection Model Defined
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18. The CTL Model Defined
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19. On Simulation Techniques
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20. Derivation of the Escape Formula
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21. Statistics of the Mutant Lineage in Classical Genetics
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22. Extinction Probabilities with Extra-Poisson Variation
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23. Computing the Boundaries
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24. Co-existence or Replacement?
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25. The Nef-Deletion Threshold Formulas
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26. Modeling Retroviral Sex
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Keywords: Biomedicine, Virology, Immunology, Vaccine