Can Antiretroviral Therapy Be Stopped? The success of our current therapies, along with the identification of long-lived reservoirs of infectious virus, raises a question about whether therapy can ...

The two most common HIV-associated renal diseases, HIV-associated nephropathy and HIV immune-complex kidney disease, share the common pathologic finding of hyperplasia within the glomerulus. Podocyte ...

Monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus have a higher diversity of gut viruses, pointing to a possible role of the virome in SIV pathogenesis. A series of rodent experiments showed that ...

Several major strides have been made towards a cure for HIV in recent years, and now, researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) may have found a new potential target. In lab tests ...

Background. Salmonellae are facultative intracellular pathogens. Non-typhoid salmonellae (NTS) cause selflimiting mucosal disease in immunocompetent adults but invasive, recurrent disease among human ...

Using genetic sequencing, scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine say they have identified a principal cellular player controlling HIV reproduction in immune ...

In a first, the study published in the journal Emerging Microbes and Infections demonstrated the team’s patented therapeutic candidate, an HIV-virus-like-particle (HLP), is 100 times more effective ...

A new study has discovered one more way the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exploits the immune system. Not only does HIV infect and destroy CD4-positive helper T cells -- which normally direct and ...

A new study published shows similarities in the pathogenesis of prion disease -- misfolded proteins that can lead to neurological diseases -- and the HIV virus. A new study by George Washington ...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has stubbornly stated that it is here to stay, causing the devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fortunately, human stubbornness and resilience are not in short supply ...

A French teenager infected at birth with HIV has shown the ability to control levels of the infection in her body – without being on antiretroviral treatment. The finding provides new hope that a ...