Detection of HIV-1 antigen associated to erythrocytes in patients with undetectable viral load in plasma for more than one year

Frequent detection of cell-associated HI

Frequent detection of cell-associated HIV-1 RNA in patients with plasma viral load <50 copies/ml

✍ Bernd Kupfer; Bertfried Matz; Martin P. Däumer; Fabienne Roden; Jürgen K. Rockst 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 129 KB

## Abstract Despite prolonged undetectable plasma viral load some HIV‐1 infected patients have been reported to develop resistance‐associated mutations leading to treatment failure. The mechanisms for this phenomenon and the point of origin for residual viral evolution are still not elucidated. In