Abstract
A single measurement of the amount of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a patient's blood can predict the subsequent risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or death, even before the patient shows signs of the disease—so reports a paper (Mellors et al ., p.1167 ) in this issue. In his Perspective, Ho discusses why this is the case and why measurement of viral loads will become extremely useful clinically.
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)VirologyMedicineViral loadDiseaseImmunologyViral diseasePerspective (graphical)Internal medicineComputer science
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David D. Ho
(1996).
Viral Counts Count in HIV Infection.
Science
, 272
(5265)
, 1124-1125.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.272.5265.1124
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- 10.1126/science.272.5265.1124