A recent report by the National Intelligence Council estimates that by 2010 five countries, India, China, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Russia, cumulatively, will harbor the largest number of individuals ...

Eric S. Daar, MD, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Daar is Associate Professor of Medicine at University of ...

The two most common HIV-associated renal diseases, HIV-associated nephropathy and HIV immune-complex kidney disease, share the common pathologic finding of hyperplasia within the glomerulus. Podocyte ...

Monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus have a higher diversity of gut viruses, pointing to a possible role of the virome in SIV pathogenesis. A series of rodent experiments showed that ...

Background. Salmonellae are facultative intracellular pathogens. Non-typhoid salmonellae (NTS) cause selflimiting mucosal disease in immunocompetent adults but invasive, recurrent disease among human ...

Using genetic sequencing, scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine say they have identified a principal cellular player controlling HIV reproduction in immune ...

In a first, the study published in the journal Emerging Microbes and Infections demonstrated the team’s patented therapeutic candidate, an HIV-virus-like-particle (HLP), is 100 times more effective ...

Taking a major step forward in HIV research, scientists have successfully edited SIV - a virus closely related to HIV, the cause of AIDS - from the genomes of non-human primates. Taking a major step ...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has stubbornly stated that it is here to stay, causing the devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fortunately, human stubbornness and resilience are not in short supply ...

A new study published shows similarities in the pathogenesis of prion disease -- misfolded proteins that can lead to neurological diseases -- and the HIV virus. A new study by George Washington ...

A French teenager infected at birth with HIV has shown the ability to control levels of the infection in her body – without being on antiretroviral treatment. The finding provides new hope that a ...