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SUBMITTER: Lee GQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5490740 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Guinevere Q GQ Orlova-Fink Nina N Einkauf Kevin K Chowdhury Fatema Z FZ Sun Xiaoming X Harrington Sean S Kuo Hsiao-Hsuan HH Hua Stephane S Chen Hsiao-Rong HR Ouyang Zhengyu Z Reddy Kavidha K Dong Krista K Ndung'u Thumbi T Walker Bruce D BD Rosenberg Eric S ES Yu Xu G XG Lichterfeld Mathias M
The Journal of clinical investigation 20170619 7
HIV-1 causes a chronic, incurable disease due to its persistence in CD4+ T cells that contain replication-competent provirus, but exhibit little or no active viral gene expression and effectively resist combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). These latently infected T cells represent an extremely small proportion of all circulating CD4+ T cells but possess a remarkable long-term stability and typically persist throughout life, for reasons that are not fully understood. Here we performed massi ...[more]