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JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 70, Issue 7, Pages 2108-2120Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkv084
Keywords
primary HIV infections; post-treatment controllers; HIV DNA; reservoirs
Funding
- French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS)
- MSD
- Janssen
- ViiV Healthcare
- GILEAD Laboratories
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Background: Therapeutic control of HIV replication reduces the size of the viral reservoir, particularly among central memory CD4+ T cells, and this effect might be accentuated by early treatment. Methods: We examined the effect of ART initiated at the time of the primary HIV infection (early ART), lasting 2 and 6 years in 11 and 10 patients, respectively, on the HIV reservoir in peripheral resting CD4+ T cells, sorted into naive (TN), central memory (TCM), transitional memory (TTM) and effector memory (TEM) cells, by comparison with 11 post-treatment controllers (PTCs). Results: Between baseline and 2 years, CD4+ T cell subset numbers increased markedly (P<0.004) and HIV DNA levels decreased in all subsets (P<0.009). TTM cells represented the majority of reservoir cells at both timepoints, T cell activation status normalized and viral diversity remained stable over time. The HIV reservoir was smaller after 6 years of early ART than after 2 years (P<0.019), and did not differ between PTCs and patients treated for 6 years. One patient, who had low reservoir levels in all T cell subsets after 2 years of treatment similar to the levels in PTCs, spontaneously controlled viral replication during 18 months off treatment. Conclusions: Early prolonged ART thus limits the size of the HIV reservoir, protects long-lived cells from persistent infection and may enhance post-treatment control.
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