Dr. Anwesha Sanyal holds up two vials with HIV-infected cells that she is preparing for Pitt Public Health’s TZA test. The yellow indicates more stimulated HIV infected cells. Credit: Image courtesy of University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health announced in Nature Medicine that they’ve created a test sensitive enough to detect “hidden” HIV, and yet is faster, less labor-intensive and less expensive than the current “gold standard” test. The new Pitt test also revealed that the amount of virus lurking dormant in people who appear to be nearly cured of HIV is about 70-fold larger than previous estimates.
HIV spreads by infecting CD4+ T cells that plays a major role in protecting the body from infection...
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