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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fun A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5324126 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fun Axel A Mok Hoi Ping HP Wills Mark R MR Lever Andrew M AM
Scientific reports 20170224
Cure of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection remains elusive due to the persistence of HIV in a latent reservoir. Strategies to eradicate latent infection can only be evaluated with robust, sensitive and specific assays to quantitate reactivatable latent virus. We have taken the standard peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) based viral outgrowth methodology and from it created a logistically simpler and more highly reproducible assay to quantify replication-competent latent HIV in re ...[more]