FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 360:724-725 February 12, 2009 Number 7 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear Related Article by Hütter, G. PubMed Citation

The history of infectious diseases frequently includes people who were resistant to a pathogen. Such a phenomenon helped the Spanish, who had resistance to smallpox, in their conquest of South America, but not the Aztecs or the Incas, who had no resistance to smallpox and were decimated by the virus.¹ Microbial resistance involves adaptive (acquired) immunity (e.g., the HLA subtype) or innate (natural) immunity resulting from the genetic makeup of the host.²

With the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its known destruction of the immune system, resistance to infection and disease was not initially expected. However, certain people — long-term . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Source Information

From the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

This article has been cited by other articles:

• (2009). Stem-Cell Transplantation Enables Long-Term HIV Control. AIDS Clin Care 2009: 1-1 [Full Text]