CD8A and HIV-1 infection: The possibility that specific co-infections may improve the clinical course of HIV-1 infection by directly or indirectly interfering with HIV-1 cell entry, replication and spread, originally proposed by the study of HIV-1/HTLV-2-infected cells (Casoli et al., 2000) has been confirmed by subsequent work on GB virus C which is able to infect B cells and CD4+ or CD8+ T lymphocytes (George et al., 2006).