Affiliation:
1. Wellcome Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. seb@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Abstract
Analysis of the short-term dynamics of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection in response to drug therapy has elucidated crucial kinetic properties of viral dynamics in vivo (D. D. Ho et al., Nature 373:123-126, 1995; A. S. Perelson et al., Science 271:1582-1586, 1996; X. Wei et al., Nature 373:117-122, 1995). Here we investigated long-term changes in virus load in patients treated with a combination of lamivudine and zidovudine to identify principal factors responsible for the observed 10- to 100-fold sustained suppression of virus load in vivo. Interestingly, most standard accounts of virus dynamics cannot explain a large sustained reduction without shifting the virus very close to extinction. The effect can be explained by taking into consideration either (i) the immune response against HIV, (ii) the killing of uninfected CD4 cells, or (iii) the differential efficacies of the drugs in different cell populations.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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