Sentences with phrase «improve protection against infection»

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

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Using improved understanding of those antibodies and the specific sites on HIV to which they bind, the natural process of antibody evolution could be replicated and greatly expedited allowing protection against initial infection.