HIV (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

HIV

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This human cell (blue) is under attack by HIV (yellow), the virus that causes AIDS. Even after treatment, the virus continues to lurk in the body in a latent form that's challenging to detect.

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Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

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