Intra-Host Evolution Analyses in an Immunosuppressed Patient Supports SARS-CoV-2 Viral Reservoir Hypothesis. [PDF]
Throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, several variants of concern (VOCs) have been identified, many of which share recurrent mutations in the spike glycoprotein’s receptor-binding domain (RBD).
Fournelle D +19 more
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Modeling latently infected cell activation: viral and latent reservoir persistence, and viral blips in HIV-infected patients on potent therapy. [PDF]
Although potent combination therapy is usually able to suppress plasma viral loads in HIV-1 patients to below the detection limit of conventional clinical assays, a low level of viremia frequently can be detected in plasma by more sensitive assays ...
Libin Rong, Alan S Perelson
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A Novel Assay to Measure the Magnitude of the Inducible Viral Reservoir in HIV-infected Individuals [PDF]
Background Quantifying latently infected cells is critical to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic strategies aimed at reducing the size of the long-lived viral reservoir, but the low frequency of these cells makes this very challenging.
Rebecca Hoh +2 more
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Establishment and Replenishment of the Viral Reservoir in Perinatally HIV-1-infected Children Initiating Very Early Antiretroviral Therapy [PDF]
Initiation of combined antiretroviral therapy within the first 12 weeks of life in vertically human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected children favors the establishment of low-level proviral reservoirs.
Claudia Fortuny +2 more
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Neuroinvasion and Viral Reservoir in COVID-19. [PDF]
The new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a remarkably high transmissibility potential and sometimes invades the central nervous system (CNS). The study of the involvement of the nervous system in the pathogenesis of the disease is especially interesting.
Altable Pérez M, De la Serna JM.
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Early antiretroviral therapy in SIV-infected rhesus macaques reveals a multiphasic, saturable dynamic accumulation of the rebound competent viral reservoir. [PDF]
The rebound competent viral reservoir (RCVR)–virus that persists during antiretroviral treatment (ART) and can reignite systemic infection when treatment is stopped–is the primary barrier to eradicating HIV.
Keele BF +27 more
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Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1. [PDF]
Sustained, drug-free control of HIV-1 replication is naturally achieved in less than 0.5% of infected individuals (here termed ‘elite controllers’), despite the presence of a replication-competent viral reservoir1.
Jiang C +30 more
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Extremely low viral reservoir in treated chronically HIV-1-infected individuals. [PDF]
Background Small viral reservoirs are found predominantly in HIV-1 controllers and individuals treated during acute/early HIV-1 infection. However, other HIV+ individuals could naturally also harbour low viral reservoirs.
Gálvez C +15 more
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HIVconsv Vaccines and Romidepsin in Early-Treated HIV-1-Infected Individuals: Safety, Immunogenicity and Effect on the Viral Reservoir (Study BCN02). [PDF]
Kick&kill strategies combining drugs aiming to reactivate the viral reservoir with therapeutic vaccines to induce effective cytotoxic immune responses hold potential to achieve a functional cure for HIV-1 infection.
Mothe B +28 more
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Viral and latent reservoir persistence in HIV-1-infected patients on therapy. [PDF]
Despite many years of potent antiretroviral therapy, latently infected cells and low levels of plasma virus have been found to persist in HIV-infected patients. The factors influencing this persistence and their relative contributions have not been fully
Hwijin Kim, Alan S Perelson
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