News Health and Medicine HIV hides soon after infection, UNC research shows
| HIV hides soon after infection, UNC research shows |
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| Tuesday, May 29, 2012 | |
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While current therapies are effective at controlling HIV, some virus remains hidden in certain CD4+ T cells, specialized immune system cells that the virus uses to replicate. This latent infection remains a significant challenge to curing HIV. A team of researchers led by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine has demonstrated that latency develops soon after infection and slows when antiretroviral therapy is given. For full release |