2024
Central Nervous System Effects of Early HIV Infection and Consequences of Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation during Acute HIV
Chan P, Spudich S. Central Nervous System Effects of Early HIV Infection and Consequences of Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation during Acute HIV. Viruses 2024, 16: 1082. PMID: 39066244, PMCID: PMC11281648, DOI: 10.3390/v16071082.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsEarly HIV infectionCentral nervous systemHIV infectionEffects of early HIV infectionIncrease awareness of HIV infectionCentral nervous system opportunistic infectionsImmediate initiation of antiretroviral therapyInitiation of antiretroviral therapyAwareness of HIV infectionCentral nervous system complicationsCentral nervous system involvementAntiretroviral therapy initiationCentral nervous system effectsLong-term neuroprotectionHIV-associated dementiaOvert clinical manifestationsYears of infectionMulti-organ diseaseNucleic acid testingAcute HIVHIV neuroinvasionHIV RNAAntiretroviral therapyOpportunistic infectionsTherapy initiation
2015
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