HIV hides from drugs
UC Davis scientists have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS, is able to survive efforts to destroy it by hiding out in the mucosal tissues of the intestine. They also observed that HIV continues to replicate in the gut mucosa, suppressing immune function in patients being treated with antiretroviral treatment--even when blood samples from the same individuals indicated the therapy was working. Results of the three-year study appear in the August issue of the Journal of Virology (available online today at http://jvi.asm.org)........
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