[HTML][HTML] CD8+ T cells in HIV control, cure and prevention

DR Collins, GD Gaiha, BD Walker - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
HIV infection can be effectively treated by lifelong administration of combination antiretroviral
therapy, but an effective vaccine will likely be required to end the HIV epidemic. Although the …

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 …

Rapid HIV RNA rebound after antiretroviral treatment interruption in persons durably suppressed in Fiebig I acute HIV infection

DJ Colby, L Trautmann, S Pinyakorn, L Leyre… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy during the earliest stage of acute HIV infection (Fiebig I) might
minimize establishment of a latent HIV reservoir and thereby facilitate viremic control after …

Recommendations for measuring HIV reservoir size in cure-directed clinical trials

M Abdel-Mohsen, D Richman, RF Siliciano… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic strategies are being clinically tested either to eradicate latent HIV reservoirs or
to achieve virologic control in the absence of antiretroviral therapy. Attaining this goal will …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of HIV-1 reservoir size and long-term dynamics during suppressive ART

N Bachmann, C Von Siebenthal, V Vongrad… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The HIV-1 reservoir is the major hurdle to a cure. We here evaluate viral and host
characteristics associated with reservoir size and long-term dynamics in 1,057 individuals …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A novel assay to measure the magnitude of the inducible viral reservoir in HIV-infected individuals

FA Procopio, R Fromentin, DA Kulpa, JH Brehm… - …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Quantifying latently infected cells is critical to evaluate the efficacy of
therapeutic strategies aimed at reducing the size of the long-lived viral reservoir, but the low …

Recommendations for analytical antiretroviral treatment interruptions in HIV research trials—report of a consensus meeting

B Julg, L Dee, J Ananworanich, DH Barouch, K Bar… - The lancet HIV, 2019 - thelancet.com
Analytical antiretroviral treatment interruption (ATI) is an important feature of HIV research,
seeking to achieve sustained viral suppression in the absence of antiretroviral therapy (ART) …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …