Drug use is associated with anti-CD4 IgG-mediated CD4+ T cell death and poor CD4+ T cell recovery in viral-suppressive HIV-infected individuals under antiretroviral therapy.

CONCLUSION: These results suggest that drug use prevents immune reconstitution in HIV-infected individuals despite long-term ART treatment and viral suppression.
PMID: 29968539 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current HIV Research - July 3, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jiang W, Luo Z, Martin L, Wan Z, Fu P, Wagner A, Ling B, Heath S, Haque A, McRae-Clark A Tags: Curr HIV Res Source Type: research