Publisher Summary The basic phenomenology of disordered lymphocyte function because
of the infection by a lymphotropic virus is neither novel nor unexpected. The problem of
measles virus-induced immunosuppression is contemporaneous with modern immunology
and virology. This chapter explains that immunosuppression associated with HIV infection
currently commands significant attention in biomedical research. Any unexplained disorder
of immune response, either heightened or suppressed, might well be investigated with an …