To study pathogenesis and develop vaccines, it would be desirable to use infectious HIV and SIV clones derived from plasma viral RNA, which is more representative of the replicating virus pool ...
HIV is a virus. Viruses are microscopic germs that are unable to multiply (replicate) by themselves. Instead, they need to find and infect a cell that will act as a host in which new viruses can be ...
There is also more risk if you have an infection in your throat or mouth which is causing inflammation. Measurement of the amount of virus in a blood sample, reported as number of HIV RNA copies per ...