title: HIV: dendritic cells as embers for the infectious fire.
abstract: In people with HIV-1, most of the CD4-expressing T cells that produce virus are short-lived and vulnerable to anti-retroviral agents. But the initial 'fire' of HIV-1 infection may begin in, and be maintained by, cells of the dendritic cell lineage.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000502:physiology* / Q000821:virology; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014779:Virus Replication