Scientists find two separate reservoirs of latent HIV in patients

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Source: Swanstrom Lab, UNC School of Medicine

Scientists have shown that, addition to HIV’s ability to lay dormant in the blood/lymphoid system, the virus may also lay dormant in the central nervous system, delineating another challenge in creating a cure.

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