Tag: MGH Infectious Disease Division

  • Nation & World

    Discovering where HIV persists in spite of treatment

    HIV antiviral therapy lets infected people live relatively healthy lives for many years, but the virus doesn’t go away completely. If treatment stops, the virus multiplies again from hidden reservoirs in the body. Researchers may have found HIV’s viral hiding place — in a small group of recently identified T cells with stem cell-like properties.

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