Are infants unique in their ability to be "functionally cured" of HIV-1?

Current HIV/AIDS Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-10

  Tobin, Nicole H ^a   Aldrovandi, Grace M ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral therapy (ART); CD4+ T cells; CD8+ T cells; Central memory T cells (T CM); Cure; Effector memory T cells (TEM); Functional cure; HIV; HIV pathogenesis; HIV 1; Immune quiescence; Immune tolerance; Infant; Microbial translocation; Mother to child transmission (MTCT); Neonate; Pathogenesis; Reservoir

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 6; MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY INTERVENTION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELL; RESERVOIR; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL;

EID: 84896717701     PISSN: 15483568     EISSN: 15483576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11904-013-0189-1     Document Type: Article

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