HIV can Spread to Brain in Four Months Increasing Risk of Dementia

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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