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Detection of treatment-resistant infectious HIV after genome-directed antiviral endonuclease therapy.
Antiviral research - 1 Feb 2016
De Silva Feelixge Harshana S, Stone Daniel, Pietz Harlan L, Roychoudhury Pavitra, Greninger Alex L, Schiffer Joshua T, Aubert Martine, Jerome Keith R
Abstract excerpt
Incurable chronic viral infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. One potential approach to cure persistent viral infections is via the use of targeted endonucleases. Nevertheless, a potential concern for endonuclease-based antiviral therapies is the emergence of treatment resistance. Here we detect for the first time an endonuclease-resistant infectious virus that is found with high...
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