Article
Compartmentalization of the gut viral reservoir in HIV-1 infected patients
1 Jan 2007
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recently there has been an increasing interest and appreciation for the gut as both a viral reservoir as well as an important host-pathogen interface in human immunodefiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. The gut associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is the largest lymphoid organ infected by HIV-1. In this study we examined if different HIV-1 quasispecies are found in different parts of the gut of HIV-1...
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