HIV Reservoir: Finding the Right Needles in a Needlestack

Alexander O Pasternak; Ben Berkhout

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2016.08.011

HIV Reservoir: Finding the Right Needles in a Needlestack

Cell Host Microbe. 2016 Sep 14;20(3):280-282. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.08.011.

Authors

Alexander O Pasternak¹, Ben Berkhout²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: a.o.pasternak@amc.uva.nl.
² Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

PMID: 27631698
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.08.011

Abstract

HIV forms a reservoir that persists despite prolonged therapy and is considered the main barrier to an HIV cure. Baxter et al. (2016) in this issue of Cell Host & Microbe and Boritz et al. (2016) in a recent Cell paper shed new light on HIV persistence in infected individuals.

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MeSH terms

Anti-HIV Agents*
CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes
HIV Infections
HIV-1*
Humans
Needles
Virus Latency

Substances

Anti-HIV Agents