Fig. 6

Correlations between HIV viremia and anti-HERV-K (HML-2) capsid responses. The correlation between the anti-HERV-K (HML-2) capsid response and viral load was determined by comparing the responses against peptide 81 (a) and the recombinant HERV-K (HML-2) capsid protein (b) measured by peptide-based ELISA for 20 viremic non-controllers. The statistical significance between the different responses was established using the non-parametric Spearman test. Figure 6a shows a representative result of four independent experiments. Figure 6b shows the mean of four independent experiments. A p value <0.05 was considered as significant. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01