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HIV-1 rebound after anti-retroviral therapy

In patients with human immunodeficiency virus 1, a comparison of the genotype of rebounding virus to that in the latent reservoir after highly active anti-retroviral therapy is discontinued indicates that the latent reservoir is not the cause of viral rebound in most cases. However, the precise anatomic location of the source of viral rebound is still undefined (pages 757–761).

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Figure 1: The dynamics of the interplay between productive and latent HIV-1 infection.

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Ho, D., Zhang, L. HIV-1 rebound after anti-retroviral therapy. Nat Med 6, 736–737 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/77447

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