Compartmentalized Replication of R5 T Cell-Tropic HIV-1 in the Central Nervous System Early in the Course of Infection
Sturdevant CB, Joseph SB, Schnell G, Price RW, Swanstrom R, Spudich S. Compartmentalized Replication of R5 T Cell-Tropic HIV-1 in the Central Nervous System Early in the Course of Infection. PLOS Pathogens 2015, 11: e1004720. PMID: 25811757, PMCID: PMC4374811, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004720.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCentral nervous systemSingle genome amplificationHIV-1 RNA concentrationsHIV-1 replicationInflammatory responseViral replicationHIV-1Nervous systemCSF HIV-1 RNA concentrationsIndependent HIV-1 replicationT-cell-tropic HIV-1Full-length env sequencesART-naïve subjectsCNS viral replicationCSF inflammatory responseTime pointsLocal viral replicationYears of infectionMonths of infectionRNA concentrationViral populationsCellular inflammatory responseCourse of infectionTransmitted variantsPopulation of subjects