Prospects for passive immunity to prevent HIV infection

PLoS Med. 2017 Nov 14;14(11):e1002436. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002436. eCollection 2017 Nov.

Authors

Lynn Morris^{1

2}, Nonhlanhla N Mkhize¹

Affiliations

¹ National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa.

Abstract

In a Perspective, Lynn Morris and Nonhlanhla Mkhize discuss the prospects for broadly neutralizing antibodies to be used in preventing HIV infection.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

HIV Antibodies / blood
HIV Antibodies / immunology*
HIV Infections / immunology*
HIV Infections / prevention & control*
HIV-1 / drug effects
HIV-1 / immunology
Humans
Immunization, Passive / methods*
Immunization, Passive / trends

Substances

HIV Antibodies

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.