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. 2018 May 29:7:e37732.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.37732.

Coloring hidden viruses

Marina Lusic  1
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Coloring hidden viruses

Marina Lusic. Elife. .

Abstract

An improved dual-color reporter reveals how the fate of latent HIV-1 depends on where it integrates in the human genome.

Keywords: HIV-1 latency; human; infectious disease; integration sites; latency reversal; latency reversing agents; microbiology; reservoirs; virus.

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Conflict of interest statement

ML No competing interests declared

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Scanning electron micrograph of an HIV-infected T cell.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV; yellow) buds from the surface of a productively infected T cell (red).
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