HIV-1 control in vivo is related to the number but not the fraction of infected cells with viral unspliced RNA
Adam A. Capoferri, Ann P. Wiegand, Feiyu F. Hong, Jana L. Jacobs, Jonathan Spindler, Andrew Musick, Michael J. Bale, Wei Shao, Michele D. Sobolewski, Anthony Richard Cillo, Brian T. Luke, Christine M. Fennessey, Robert J. Gorelick, Rebecca Hoh, Elias Konstantine Halvas, , Mary F. Kearney
The paper compares the fraction and total number of HIV-infected cells with unspliced RNA in controllers and non-controllers, finding that viremic control is linked to fewer infected cells, not a lower fraction of infected cells with HIV usRNA.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 27, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology