New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 12/14/2009 - 23:00

(Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine) Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons.

However, US Military HIV Research Program researchers have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious virus particles can bind to the surface of red blood cells isolated from each of 30 normal (non-infected) human donors.

The results were published today in PLoS ONE.

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