HIV RNA levels in transmission sources only weakly predict plasma viral load in recipients

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In a typical HIV-1-infected patient, plasma viral load (pVL) increases steeply in the first week after acute infection, then decreases as the immune system becomes activated, resulting in antibody seroconversion 3–13 days after infection and a full western blot pattern approximately 3 months later [1–3]. The so-called viral set point or steady-state viral load is reached after approximately 40–276 days from the...

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