New study reveals key tissues involved in HIV rebound after treatment
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Worldwide, an estimated, 40 million people live with HIV. Two-thirds of this group on the African continent.
 
 
 New study reveals key tissues involved in HIV rebound after treatmentNew study reveals key tissues involved in HIV rebound after treatment
 
In findings that have implications for potential new HIV therapies, researchers from Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) used genetic sequencing techniques on the nonhuman primate version of the virus to identify that lymph nodes in the abdomen are the leading source of rebound infection after the first week of stopping antiretroviral treatment.
 
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