Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Therapeutic efficacy of combined active and passive immunization in ART-suppressed, SHIV-infected rhesus macaques

  • Victoria E. K. Walker-Sperling,
  • Noe B. Mercado,
  • Abishek Chandrashekar,
  • Erica N. Borducchi,
  • Jinyan Liu,
  • Joseph P. Nkolola,
  • Mark Lewis,
  • Jeffrey P. Murry,
  • Yunling Yang,
  • Romas Geleziunas,
  • Merlin L. Robb,
  • Nelson L. Michael,
  • Maria G. Pau,
  • Frank Wegmann,
  • Hanneke Schuitemaker,
  • Emily J. Fray,
  • Mithra R. Kumar,
  • Janet D. Siliciano,
  • Robert F. Siliciano,
  • Dan H. Barouch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31196-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Antiretroviral therapy alone is insufficient in curing HIV-1 infection, due to latent viral reservoir persistency. Here, authors explore the post-virologic control of combining active and passive immunisation with vesatolimod, in a SHIV-infected rhesus macaque model.