The replication-competent HIV-1 latent reservoir is primarily established near the time of therapy initiation.

ABSTRACT: Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) is highly effective at suppressing HIV-1 replication, the virus persists as a latent reservoir in resting CD4⁺ T cells during therapy. This reservoir forms even when ART is initiated early after infection, but the dynamics of its formation are largely unknown. The viral reservoirs of individuals who initiate ART during chronic infection are generally larger and genetically more diverse than those of individuals who initiate therapy during acute infection, consistent with the hypothesis that the reservoir is formed continuously throughout untreated infection. To determine when viruses enter the latent reservoir, we compared sequences of replication-competent viruses from resting peripheral CD4⁺ T cells from nine HIV-positive women

SUBMITTER: Abrahams MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7233356 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature