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Human Retroviruses and AIDS

This retrospective collection collates recently published notable papers on HIV and retrovirus research from the journals AIDS Research and Therapy and Retrovirology.

Participating Journals

AIDS Research and Therapy (Editors-in-Chief: Barbara Castelnuovo, MD, PhD, Makerere University, Uganda;
Patricia Price, PhD, Curtin University, Australia)

Retrovirology (Editors-in-Chief: Johnson Mak, PhD, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Australia; Susan Ross, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)


  1. HTLV-1 is a worldwide distribution retrovirus with 10–20 million infected individuals. ATLL is an Adult T-cell leukaemia lymphoma caused by aggressive T-cell proliferation that is infected by HTLV-1 and is ass...

    Authors: Mohammad Mehdi Akbarin, Seyed Abdolrahim Rezaee, Zahra Farjami, Hossein Rahimi and Houshang Rafatpanah
    Citation: AIDS Research and Therapy 2024 21:81
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  2. Two-drug regimens (2DRs) have been introduced in recent years to potentially reduce antiretroviral therapy (ART) toxicities and drug-drug interactions while demonstrating comparable efficacy to three-drug regi...

    Authors: Gerald Pierone, Jennifer S. Fusco, Laurence Brunet, Vani Vannappagari, Supriya Sarkar, Cassidy E. Henegar, Jean van Wyk, Michael B. Wohlfeiler, Anthony Mills and Gregory P. Fusco
    Citation: AIDS Research and Therapy 2024 21:76
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  4. China braces for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surge after adjusting the “zero COVID” strategy. We aimed to evaluate and compare the prevalence of clinical symptoms of the Omicron variant infection among...

    Authors: Yuting Tan, Songjie Wu, Fangzhao Ming, Jie Liu, Gifty Marley, Aiping Yu, Yanhe Luo, Shi Zou, Wei Guo, Weiming Tang and Ke Liang
    Citation: AIDS Research and Therapy 2024 21:53
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  5. Human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection remains a largely neglected public health problem, particularly in resource-poor areas with high burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, ...

    Authors: Ashley Hirons, David Yurick, Natasha Jansz, Paula Ellenberg, Genoveffa Franchini, Lloyd Einsiedel, Georges Khoury and Damian F. J. Purcell
    Citation: Retrovirology 2024 21:14
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  6. Retroviruses exploit host proteins to assemble and release virions from infected cells. Previously, most studies focused on interacting partners of retroviral Gag proteins that localize to the cytoplasm or pla...

    Authors: Gregory S. Lambert, Breanna L. Rice, Rebecca J. Kaddis Maldonado, Jordan Chang and Leslie J. Parent
    Citation: Retrovirology 2024 21:13
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  7. Despite the widespread use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, scant information on HIV drug resistance mutations (DRMs) has been gathered over the...

    Authors: Brian Eka Rachman, Siti Qamariyah Khairunisa, Citrawati Dyah Kencono Wungu, Tri Pudy Asmarawati, Musofa Rusli, Bramantono, M. Vitanata Arfijanto, Usman Hadi, Masanori Kameoka and Nasronudin
    Citation: AIDS Research and Therapy 2024 21:37
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  8. Bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are the two main mental disorders with unknown etiology that significantly impact individuals’ quality of life. The potential pro-inflammatory role in their pathoge...

    Authors: Sara Coelho Rangel, Michelly Damasceno da Silva, Décio Gilberto Natrielli Filho, Samuel Nascimento Santos, Jonatas Bussador do Amaral, Jefferson Russo Victor, Kevin Cezar Nascimento Silva, Izabela Dorota Tuleta, Carolina Nunes França, Marina Tiemi Shio, Lucas Melo Neves, André Luis Lacerda Bachi and Luiz Henrique da Silva Nali
    Citation: Retrovirology 2024 21:7
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  9. Transcriptionally latent forms of replication-competent proviruses, present primarily in a small subset of memory CD4+ T cells, pose the primary barrier to a cure for HIV-1 infection because they are the source o...

    Authors: Uri Mbonye and Jonathan Karn
    Citation: Retrovirology 2024 21:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Chemokines are cytokines whose primary role is cellular activation and stimulation of leukocyte migration. They perform their various functions by interacting with G protein-coupled cell surface receptors (GPC...

    Authors: Natacha Faivre, Christel Verollet and Fabrice Dumas
    Citation: Retrovirology 2024 21:2
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  11. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection remains a public health concern in many countries. The increased life expectancy in the post-Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) era has led to an increased risk of cardiovas...

    Authors: Mawulorm K. I. Denu, Ritika Revoori, Maame Araba E. Buadu, Oluwakemi Oladele and Kofi Poku Berko
    Citation: AIDS Research and Therapy 2024 21:5
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