Dormant copies of HIV mostly defective, new study shows
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 04:01
in Health & Medicine
After fully sequencing the latent HIV 'provirus' genomes from 19 people being treated for HIV, scientists 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 those that can spring back into action and keep infections going.