Challenges in detecting HIV persistence during potentially curative interventions: a study of the Berlin patient.

There is intense interest in developing curative interventions for HIV. How such a cure will be quantified and defined is not known. We applied a series of measurements of HIV persistence to the study of an HIV-infected adult who has exhibited evidence of cure after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cel...

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Main Authors: Steven A Yukl, Eli Boritz, Michael Busch, Christopher Bentsen, Tae-Wook Chun, Daniel Douek, Evelyn Eisele, Ashley Haase, Ya-Chi Ho, Gero Hütter, J Shawn Justement, Sheila Keating, Tzong-Hae Lee, Peilin Li, Danielle Murray, Sarah Palmer, Christopher Pilcher, Satish Pillai, Richard W Price, Meghan Rothenberger, Timothy Schacker, Janet Siliciano, Robert Siliciano, Elizabeth Sinclair, Matt Strain, Joseph Wong, Douglas Richman, Steven G Deeks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3649997?pdf=render