What is a latent viral infection?Treating InfectionsThe first step that must be taken before being able to treat a viral infection is to verify with which virus the organism is infected. In some cases symptoms may become apparent quickly, while in others symptoms may only appear weeks, months...
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A viral infection is a proliferation of a harmful virus inside your body. Viruses cannot reproduce without the assistance of a host. Viruses infect a host by introducing their genetic material into the cells and hijacking the cell's internal machinery to make more virus particles. With an active...
How is a latent viral infection different from a chronic viral infection? Latent infection is characterized bythe lack of demonstrable infectious virus between episodes of recurrent disease. Chronic infection is characterized by the continued presence of infectious virus following the primary infection and...
The presence of VCA antibodies is recognized as a sensitive measurement for active infection. While for EBV reactivation, testing for ZEBRA and for EBV early antigen antibody was found to be useful. In addition, ZEBRA IgG and VCA IgM antibody associations were attributed to increased risk of non...
It has been well established that both innate and adaptive immune responses are required for host control of tuberculosis infection [2], [3]. In tuberculosis pathogenesis, the host cellular immune response determines whether an infection is arrested as latent or persistent infection or progresses to...
Understanding the interactions between intestinal microbiota, chronic inflammation, cellular stress, and aging is essential to developing therapies aimed at reducing inflammation and slowing age-related diseases in PWH. In this review, we discuss critical knowledge gaps and highlight the therapeutic potentia...
Auto-immunityBoth latent autoimmunity and PolyA have been observed in a high percentage of patients (83% and 62% of cases, respectively). The delayed resolution resulting from low-grade inflammation is evidenced by elevated levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-α. The detection of circul...
We find that reinfection is necessary to explain observed dynamics; that acute infectious periods may be very short (hours to days); that immunity, if present, lasts about 1鈥 2 years; and that recurring latent infection is likely. Although quantitative inference is sensitive to assumptions about...
Latent HIV-1 reservoirs are established early during the acute phase of the infection, possibly before the virus appears in the systemic circulation. As well as the issue of timing, we review the proposed hypotheses on the mechanisms by which this latent state is believed to be established early...