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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

Measuring the Success of HIV-1 Cure Strategies.

Jordan Thomas, Alessandra Ruggiero, William A Paxton, Georgios Pollakis

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Viral and immune predictors of HIV posttreatment control.Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2025
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  6. Journal of experimental pharmacology · 2024
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  7. Sustained antiviral response againstFrontiers in pharmacology · 2024
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  10. HIV Reservoir: How to Measure It?Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2023
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  12. Role of microglia in HIV-1 infection.AIDS research and therapy · 2023
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  19. Significance of initiating antiretroviral therapy in the early stage of HIV infection.Zhejiang da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jordan ThomasDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Alessandra RuggieroDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
William A PaxtonDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Georgios PollakisDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HIV-1 eradication strategies aim to achieve viral remission in the absence of antiretroviral therapy (ART). The development of an HIV-1 cure remains challenging due to the latent reservoir (LR): long-lived CD4 T cells that harbor transcriptionally silent HIV-1 provirus. The LR is stable despite years of suppressive ART and is the source of rebound viremia following therapy interruption. Cure strategies such as "shock and kill" aim to eliminate or reduce the LR by reversing latency, exposing the infected cells to clearance via the immune response or the viral cytopathic effect. Alternative strategies include therapeutic vaccination, which aims to prime the immune response to facilitate control of the virus in the absence of ART. Despite promising advances, these strategies have been unable to significantly reduce the LR or increase the time to viral rebound but have provided invaluable insight in the field of HIV-1 eradication. The development and assessment of an HIV-1 cure requires robust assays that can measure the LR with sufficient sensitivity to detect changes that may occur following treatment. The viral outgrowth assay (VOA) is considered the gold standard method for LR quantification due to its ability to distinguish intact and defective provirus. However, the VOA is time consuming and resource intensive, therefore several alternative assays have been developed to bridge the gap between practicality and accuracy. Whilst a cure for HIV-1 infection remains elusive, recent advances in our understanding of the LR and methods for its eradication have offered renewed hope regarding achieving ART free viral remission.

Indexed as

HIV-1HIV InfectionsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesHumansViremiaVirus LatencyDNA/RNA quantificationHIV-1latencylatent reservoirpersistence

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PMID32318356
PMCPMC7154081

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