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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Main Authors: Kristian Thorlund, Marc S. Horwitz, Brian T. Fife, Richard Lester, D. William Cameron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-017-2683-3