Diverse mechanisms are used by viruses to inhibit, block, or evade the immune response (see review in reference ([1][1])). These include reduced expression of critical antigenic epitopes (e.g., EBV in latency), genetic variation of class I–restricted CTL epitopes (HIV-1), clonal exhaustion of CTLs
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