Researchers funded by NIMH have found that astrocytes, a type of brain cell, can harbor HIV and then spread the virus to immune cells that traffic out of the brain and into other organs.
Source: NIH
Science News » Brain Cells Can Harbor and Spread HIV Virus to the Body
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