Reviewed by Carrie D. Johnston, MD, MS, Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. "Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources ...
Some viruses that make us sick are cleared by the immune system within days, while others lurk in our bodies for a lifetime and reemerge later to cause new problems. How and why viral levels in the ...
Researchers have identified a positive correlation between viral load and the rate at which genetic diversity increases within intrahost HIV populations. HIV has been historically difficult to treat ...
In a cohort study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the United States of America investigated the role of type-2 interferon (IFNγ) in antiviral immunity against severe acute ...
Hepatitis B viral load is the amount of hepatitis B virus (HBV) found in a person’s bloodstream. Hepatitis B is a viral infection that can pass from person to person through bodily fluids. It ...
In a recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, researchers investigated whether denser intrahost human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) populations had a higher incidence of coinfection ...
Systematic review of 8 studies in more than 7,700 serodiscordant couples in 25 countries finds people living with HIV with viral loads less than 1,000 copies/mL have almost zero risk of transmitting ...