Dormant copies of HIV mostly defective, new study shows
Monday, August 8, 2016 - 12:01
in Health & Medicine
After fully sequencing the latent HIV “provirus” genomes from 19 people being treated for HIV, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that even in patients who start treatment very early, the only widely available method to measure the reservoir of dormant HIV in patients is mostly counting defective viruses that won’t cause harm, rather than […]