The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
VA San Diego Healthcare System and University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Nat Med. 2020 Sep;26(9):1339-1350. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-1022-1. Epub 2020 Sep 7.
Therapeutic strategies are being clinically tested either to eradicate latent HIV reservoirs or to achieve virologic control in the absence of antiretroviral therapy. Attaining this goal will require a consensus on how best to measure the numbers of persistently infected cells with the potential to cause viral rebound after antiretroviral-therapy cessation in assessing the results of cure-directed strategies in vivo. Current measurements assess various aspects of the HIV provirus and its functionality and produce divergent results. Here, we provide recommendations from the BEAT-HIV Martin Delaney Collaboratory on which viral measurements should be prioritized in HIV-cure-directed clinical trials.
治疗策略正在临床测试中,旨在消灭潜伏的 HIV 储库,或在没有抗逆转录病毒治疗的情况下实现病毒学控制。要实现这一目标,就需要就如何最好地衡量在停止抗逆转录病毒治疗后有潜力引起病毒反弹的持续感染细胞数量达成共识,从而评估体内治愈导向策略的结果。目前的测量方法评估了 HIV 前病毒及其功能的各个方面,并产生了不同的结果。在这里,我们提供了 BEAT-HIV Martin Delaney 合作实验室的建议,即在 HIV 治愈导向临床试验中应优先考虑哪些病毒测量。