Mullins Molecular Retrovirology Lab

  • Department of Microbiology
  • School of Medicine
  • University of Washington
University of Washington/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research

Citation Information

Xu Y, Zhu H, Wilcox CK, van’t Wout A, Andrus T, Llewellyn N, Stamatatos L, Mullins JI, Corey L, Zhu T (2008). Blood monocytes harbor HIV type 1 strains with diversified phenotypes including macrophage-specific CCR5 virus. The Journal of infectious diseases, 197(2), 309-18. (pubmed) (doi)

Abstract

Recent studies have shown that blood monocytes harbor human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) variants that are genotypically distinguishable from those in CD4(+) T cells. However, the biological function of monocyte-derived HIV-1 remains unclear.