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Studies from University of Texas update current data on HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 19th, 2009

According to recent research from the United States, "Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can reduce human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) viremia to clinically undetectable levels. Despite this dramatic reduction, some virus is present in the blood."

"In addition, a long-lived latent reservoir for HIV-1 exists in resting memory CD4(+) T cells. This reservoir is believed to be a source of the residual viremia and is the focus of eradication efforts. Here, we use two measures of population structure-analysis of molecular variance and the Slatkin-Maddison test-to demonstrate that the residual viremia is genetically distinct from proviruses in resting CD4(+)...

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