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AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Review Open Access Predictors of disease progression in HIV infection: a review 1,2 2 2,3 Simone E Langford* , Jintanat Ananworanich and David A Cooper Address: 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration, Bangkok, Thailand and 3The National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Sydney, Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Email: Simone E Langford* - simone.langford@.au; Jintanat Ananworanich - jintanat.a@; David A Cooper - dcooper@.au * Corresponding author Published: 14 May 2007 Received: 6 November 2006 Accepted: 14 May 2007 AIDS Research and Therapy 2007, 4:11 doi:10.1186/1742-6405-4-11 This article is available from: /content/4/1/11 © 2007 Langford et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract During the extended clinically latent period associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection the virus itself is far from latent. This phase of infection generally comes to an end with the development of symptomatic illness. Understanding the factors affecting disease progressio