(…Continued) JCI: Infectious HIV is not present in liver macrophages of HIV-infected patients receiving treatment doi:10.1172/JCI121678 In a new study, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Los Alamos National Laboratory determined whether liver macrophages are infectious HIV-1 virus pools after ART treatment. The real source of the liver tissue samples from nine HIV-1 infected individuals (7 of them were transplanted at Johns Hopkins Hospital). Eight of these nine…
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Progress in HIV Research in October 2018 (I)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), an AIDS (AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) virus, is a virus that causes defects in the human immune system. In 1983, HIV was first discovered in the United States. It is a lentivirus that infects cells of the human immune system and is a type of retrovirus. By destroying the body’s T lymphocytes, HIV blocks cellular and humoral immune processes, causing the immune system to deficiency, and…