HIV reservoirs: pathogenesis and obstacles to viral eradication and cure

TW Chun, AS Fauci - Aids, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Plasma HIV viremia can be suppressed and maintained below the limits of detection for
prolonged periods of time in the vast majority of HIV-infected individuals who receive …

The size of the expressed HIV reservoir predicts timing of viral rebound after treatment interruption

JZ Li, B Etemad, H Ahmed, E Aga, RJ Bosch… - Aids, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Therapies to achieve sustained antiretroviral therapy-free HIV remission will
require validation in analytic treatment interruption (ATI) trials. Identifying biomarkers that …

Long-term mortality in HIV-positive individuals virally suppressed for> 3 years with incomplete CD4 recovery

FN Engsig, R Zangerle, O Katsarou… - Clinical infectious …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background. Some human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected individuals initiating
combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) with low CD4 counts achieve viral suppression but …

Myeloid and CD4 T cells comprise the latent reservoir in antiretroviral therapy-suppressed SIVmac251-infected macaques

CM Abreu, RT Veenhuis, CR Avalos, S Graham… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) eradication or long-term suppression in the absence
of antiretroviral therapy (ART) requires an understanding of all viral reservoirs that could …

CCL3L1-CCR5 genotype influences durability of immune recovery during antiretroviral therapy of HIV-1–infected individuals

SK Ahuja, H Kulkarni, G Catano, BK Agan… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
The basis for the extensive variability seen in the reconstitution of CD4+ T cell counts in HIV-
infected individuals receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is not fully known …

The HIV-1 latent reservoir is largely sensitive to circulating T cells

JA Warren, S Zhou, Y Xu, MJ Moeser, DR MacMillan… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells are an important component of HIV-1 curative strategies. Viral
variants in the HIV-1 reservoir may limit the capacity of T cells to detect and clear virus …

[HTML][HTML] Establishment of latent HIV-1 reservoirs: what do we really know?

J Vanhamel, A Bruggemans, Z Debyser - Journal of virus eradication, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite our ability to suppress HIV-1 replication indefinitely in people on optimal combined
antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV-1 persists as a stably integrated and replication-competent …

Antiretroviral therapy alone versus antiretroviral therapy with a kick and kill approach, on measures of the HIV reservoir in participants with recent HIV infection (the …

S Fidler, W Stöhr, M Pace, L Dorrell, A Lever, S Pett… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) cannot cure HIV infection because of a persistent
reservoir of latently infected cells. Approaches that force HIV transcription from these cells …

Eradication therapies for HIV infection: time to begin again

DM Margolis - AIDS research and human retroviruses, 2011 - liebertpub.com
Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in decreasing mortality for HIV-1-infected
patients, ART has not cured the disease. A persistent viral reservoir in the T cells of HIV …

Differential impact of transplantation on peripheral and tissue-associated viral reservoirs: Implications for HIV gene therapy

CW Peterson, J Wang, C Deleage, S Reddy… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Autologous transplantation and engraftment of HIV-resistant cells in sufficient numbers
should recapitulate the functional cure of the Berlin Patient, with applicability to a greater …