Landscape review of current HIV ‘kick and kill’ cure research - some kicking, not enough killing
Abstract Background Current antiretroviral therapy (ART) used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients is life-long because it only suppresses de novo infections. Recent efforts to eliminate HIV have tested the ability of a number of agents to reactivate (‘Kick’) the well-known latent re...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-08-01
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Series: | BMC Infectious Diseases |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-017-2683-3 |