HIV/AIDS Therapy

Viral reservoirs precludes complete HIV elimination from treated patients

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 22nd, 2005

Antiviral therapy has been used to suppress HIV replication and has dramatically improved the clinical course of disease in affected patients. But the existence of viral reservoirs precludes the complete elimination of HIV from treated patients.

In a new study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Tae-Wook Chun and colleagues from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) offer new insight into the eradication of HIV in infected individuals receiving antiviral therapy.

The authors focused on HIV-infected patients who had received effective antiviral therapy for extended periods of time and examined the nature of their residual virus as...

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