Substantial uneven proliferation of CD4+ T cells during recovery from acute HIV infection is sufficient to explain the observed expanded clones in the HIV reservoir
The HIV reservoir is a population of 1–10 million anatomically dispersed, latently infected memory CD4+ T cells in which HIV DNA is quiescently integrated into human chromosomal DNA. When antiretroviral therapy (ART) is stopped and HIV replication initiates in one of these cells, systemic viral spre...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Virus Eradication |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2055664022000292 |