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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, AIDS, 4(28), p. 603-605, 2014

DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000000147

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What is the significance of posttreatment control of HIV infection vis a vis functional cure?

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Abstract

An important challenge of HIV research today is‘functional cure’ or HIV remission, that is interventionsto keep viral load at low or undetectable level afterinterrupting combined antiretroviral treatment (cART).It has been suggested that so-called ‘elite controllers’ mayprovide important clues in this quest [1]. By definitionelite controllers are able to maintain their viral loadsbelow the clinical level of detection (