This image shows the replication cycle of HIV/SIV. The virus replicates in the body's own CD4+ T helper cells. In doing so, it introduces its own genetic information into the DNA of the host cell.

They graphically represent the life cycle of HIV-1, from the initial binding of the viral particle onto a host cell (Viral Entry), through insinuation into the host cell's nucleus to spark the ...

The window period of modern laboratory HIV tests is 45 days. The window period of rapid, point-of-care tests and self-tests is 90 days. The window period refers to the time after infection and before ...

The retroviral replication cycle requires that retroviral nucleic ... In contrast, lentiviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) do not depend on host cell mitosis to access the nucleus.

The future may be getting brighter in terms of reducing the threat of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), infectious disease experts told Newsweek. With new treatments and maybe even a vaccine ...

A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of ...

Early steps of infection by HIV-1 involve entry of the viral core into cells, reverse transcription to form the linear viral DNA, and integration of that DNA into a chromosome of the host.