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March 12, 2010

HIV Reservoir Found in Blood Progenitor Cells in Bone Marrow

"SUMMARY: HIV can hide in the bone marrow inside hematopoietic progenitor stem cells, even in people with long-term undetectable plasma viral load, according to study results reported in the March 7, 2010 online edition of Nature Medicine. When the cells are forced to differentiate into different types of blood cells, the viral genome becomes active and begins producing new viral particles. The ramifications of this finding are not yet clear, but will certainly have implications for the growing effort to accomplish HIV eradication."

Read more in HIVandHepatitis.com, March 12, 2010.

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