Currently existing drugs are not able to completely eliminate HIV in the body. Deadly virus hides drugs in different reservoirs, the most important of which is the lymphoid tissue of the gut, U.S. researchers found. Experts from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda (Maryland) conducted a study of eight patients with HIV infection. All participants received antiretroviral drugs to HIV for two to ten years to deal with, to feel good and have a low viral load (low levels of virus in the blood). However, taken in the study of intestinal lymphoid tissue samples from patients with a biopsy, the researchers revealed the presence of HIV. The level of CD4 + cells, which are targets for the virus, was also lower than normal. Researchers confirmed the similarity of DNA viruses found in the intestine of HIV DNA from leukocytes. This demonstrated that both infect tissue permanently each other after the replication of the virus, and that. Intestinal reservoir not from other tissues of the body, the head of research Anthony Fauci (Anthony Fauci) isolated According to scientists, it is important as early treatment of HIV, as to reduce the size of the reservoir of the virus in the patient. The study appears in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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