AIDS/HIV (Transmission)

Virus Appears To Replicate in Tissues Other Than Lymph System

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 22nd, 1996

The mucous membranes that lie above the lymph glands of the throat can be a major site of HIV-1 replication in people infected with HIV but who have not yet developed clinical symptoms.

This research was reported by scientists from the Rockefeller University and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in the April 5, 1996 issue of the journal Science.

"By identifying a site in the throat's mucous membranes where HIV-1 is so abundant in patients who are clinically well, we know that HIV-1 infection is not a slow or covert process," says senior author Ralph Steinman, M.D., director of the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology at...

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