The evaluation of risk-benefit ratio for gut tissue sampling in HIV cure research

• Main Authors: Vikram Mehraj (Author), Peter Ghali (Author), Rayoun Ramendra (Author), Cecilia Costiniuk (Author), Bertrand Lebouché (Author), Rosalie Ponte (Author), Robert Reinhard (Author), Jose Sousa (Author), Nicolas Chomont (Author), Eric A. Cohen (Author), Petronela Ancuta (Author), Jean-Pierre Routy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) does not cure HIV infection due to the persistence of HIV reservoirs in long-lived memory CD4 T cells present in the blood, lymph nodes, intestinal tract, and other tissues. Interest grows in obtaining gut-tissue samples for HIV persistence studies, which p...