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HIV-1 and HAART: A time to cure, a time to kill

Nature Medicine volume 5, pages 609–611 (1999)Cite this article

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Two clinical studies show a failure of conventional anti-retroviral therapy in achieving complete HIV eradication; 10–60 years are deemed necessary to eliminate HIV.

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Figure 1: The dynamics of CD4 activation, infection, reactivation and cell death.

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  1. Department of Medicine The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, 908 20th Street South Community Care Building 174, Birmingham, 35294-2050, Alabama, USA

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Saag, M., Kilby, J. HIV-1 and HAART: A time to cure, a time to kill. Nat Med 5, 609–611 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/9452

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