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HIV reservoirs are established earlier than expected

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The European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), February 2023 For the first time in humans, a research team has shown that, as early as the first days of infection, HIV is able to create reservoirs where it will hide and persist during antiretroviral therapy. Until now, the scientific community did not know exactly when or how these viral reservoirs—the existence of which is a major obstacle to curing...

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Even in undetectable patients, HIV is still replicating in the lymphoid tissues

By J Pope

In HIV

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Slate, January 27 2016 While progress toward a vaccine and even a functional cure for HIV has accelerated in recent years, a major obstacle has been the “viral reservoir”—locations and cell types in a body where the virus can persist at very low levels even when treatment has succeeded at making it undetectable in the blood by standard testing. Published in the Jan. 27 issue of Nature, a new...

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