Drug cocktails can prevent the virus from replicating, but they do - TopicsExpress



          

Drug cocktails can prevent the virus from replicating, but they do nothing to the latent virus. Every day, some of the dormant white blood cells wake up. If drug treatment is halted, the latent virus particles can restart the infection. HIV researchers call this huge pool of latent virus the barrier to a cure. Everyone’s looking for ways to get rid of it. It’s a daunting task, because although a million HIV-infected cells may seem like a lot, there are around a million times that many dormant white blood cells in the whole body. Finding the ones that contain HIV is a true needle-in-a-haystack problem.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:11:58 +0000

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