HIV Left Over After Viral Infection Mostly Dormant

This is good news, because it was recently found that some of the virus is left over after viral therapy - A

Specifically, the investigators showed that more than 90 percent of latent proviruses are genetic duds, so mutated—even in early stages of disease—that they no longer function. The findings, described August 8 in Nature Medicine online, suggest a pressing need for new ways to count only non-damaged proviruses, because an accurate count is key to guiding and gauging the effectiveness of experimental therapies directed at the latent HIV reservoir.
"To cure HIV, you want to get rid of the proviruses without defects," says senior study author Robert Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D., an infectious disease physician and molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "But our work shows that the standard assays used to do that are measuring forms of the virus that are not really relevant to these cure strategies."

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