The biology of the HIV-1 latent reservoir and implications for cure strategies

LB Cohn, N Chomont, SG Deeks - Cell host & microbe, 2020 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) inhibits HIV replication but is not curative. During ART, the
integrated HIV genome persists indefinitely within CD4+ T cells and perhaps other cells …

International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016

SG Deeks, SR Lewin, AL Ross, J Ananworanich… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy is not curative. Given the challenges in providing lifelong therapy to a
global population of more than 35 million people living with HIV, there is intense interest in …

Antiretroviral drugs for treatment and prevention of HIV infection in adults: 2016 recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA panel

HF Günthard, MS Saag, CA Benson, C Del Rio, JJ Eron… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance New data and therapeutic options warrant updated recommendations for the use
of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to treat or to prevent HIV infection in adults. Objective To …

HIV DNA set point is rapidly established in acute HIV infection and dramatically reduced by early ART

J Ananworanich, N Chomont, LA Eller, E Kroon… - …, 2016 - thelancet.com
HIV DNA is a marker of HIV persistence that predicts HIV progression and remission, but its
kinetics in early acute HIV infection (AHI) is poorly understood. We longitudinally measured …

Total HIV-1 DNA, a marker of viral reservoir dynamics with clinical implications

V Avettand-Fènoël, L Hocqueloux… - Clinical microbiology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY HIV-1 DNA persists in infected cells despite combined antiretroviral therapy
(cART), forming viral reservoirs. Recent trials of strategies targeting latent HIV reservoirs …

Profound phenotypic and epigenetic heterogeneity of the HIV-1-infected CD4+ T cell reservoir

VH Wu, JML Nordin, S Nguyen, J Joy, F Mampe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the complexity of the long-lived HIV reservoir during antiretroviral therapy
(ART) remains a considerable impediment in research towards a cure for HIV. To address …

[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 …

Barriers and strategies to achieve a cure for HIV

MC Pitman, JSY Lau, JH McMahon, SR Lewin - The Lancet HIV, 2018 - thelancet.com
9 years since the report of a cure for HIV after CC chemokine receptor type 5 Δ32 stem cell
transplantation, no other case of HIV cure has been reported, despite much research …

Clinical and public health implications of acute and early HIV detection and treatment: a scoping review

SE Rutstein, J Ananworanich, S Fidler… - African Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Methods We conducted a scoping review [28] synthesizing the most recent literature on
clinical and public health implications of widespread AHI detection and treatment. This …

Early antiretroviral therapy favors post-treatment SIV control associated with the expansion of enhanced memory CD8+ T-cells

C Passaes, D Desjardins, A Chapel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
HIV remission can be achieved in some people, called post-treatment HIV controllers, after
antiretroviral treatment discontinuation. Treatment initiation close to the time of infection was …