Long-term follow-up studies confirm the stability of the latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T cells (original) (raw)

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Latent HIV-1 persists in resting memory CD4+ T cells, even in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). It has been unclear how stable this latent reservoir is and whether its persistence reflects replenishment by low-level viremia. Here we show that even in treated patients who have had no detectable viremia for as long as 7 years, the reservoir decays so slowly (t1/2 = 44 months) that eradication is unlikely.

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Figure 1: Extremely slow decay of the latent reservoir in patients on HAART.

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Acknowledgements

We thank S. Barnett for coordinating patient visits. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant AI43222 to R.F.S. and by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, Maryland, USA
    Janet D Siliciano, Joleen Kajdas, Thomas C Quinn & Robert F Siliciano
  2. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA
    Diana Finzi & Thomas C Quinn
  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, 21205, Maryland, USA
    Karen Chadwick & Joseph B Margolick
  4. Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5B 1L6, Ontario, Canada
    Colin Kovacs
  5. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, 21205, Maryland, USA
    Stephen J Gange

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Siliciano, J., Kajdas, J., Finzi, D. et al. Long-term follow-up studies confirm the stability of the latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting CD4+ T cells.Nat Med 9, 727–728 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm880

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