
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS can spread to the patients' brain early in the illness process, revealed a study published in iPLoS Pathogens/i. In the absence of antiretroviral therapy, HIV can genetically evolve and independently replicate in patients' brains as early as four months after initial infection and predisposes an individual to HIV-associated dementia. These findings stress the importance of routine HIV testing to catch the infection ...

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