Two studies of patients who had been effectively treated with ARVs ie undetectable viral load in the blood were conducted in Sweden. [more]

Researchers have linked a type of mouse virus to the baffling condition called chronic fatigue syndrome which is a debilitating disorder defined solely by clinical symptoms.[more]

A group of investigators from Michigan State University have been studying the enteric microbiome, which is all the microbes that live in the human gut, in order to analyze the role they play in food and water-borne illnesses.[more]

The chronic phase of HIV infection is marked by pathological activation of the immune system, the extent of which better predicts disease progression than either plasma viral load or CD4+ T cell count.[more]

HIV infected individuals are more likely to have kidney disease compared with the general population.[more]

An international team of researchers conducting a genome-wide association study has discovered that common variants in immune system genes are linked to Parkinson's disease.[more]

Once viral cDNA is integrated into the host chromosome it is almost impossible to terminate the infection process and cure AIDS.[more]