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Even at Low Levels, HIV in Blood is Bad News

Published in Blood Weekly, February 10th, 1997

After aggressive antiretroviral therapy, a low level of HIV in the plasma is a bad sign.

It means that the virus may be going wild in the lymph nodes, according to a study by University of California, San Diego researcher J.K. Wong and colleagues.

"Presence of HIV RNA in the plasma, even at low levels after initial therapeutic response, is associated with significant viral replication in the lymph nodes while complete sustained suppression is associated with significant viral replication in the lymph nodes while complete sustained suppression in plasma correlates with a greater than 3.5 log10 lower virus RNA level in lymphoid tissues,"...

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