title: HIV Reservoir: Finding the Right Needles in a Needlestack.
abstract: HIV forms a reservoir that persists despite prolonged therapy and is considered the main barrier to an HIV cure. Baxter et al. (2016) in this issue of Cell Host & Microbe and Boritz et al. (2016) in a recent Cell paper shed new light on HIV persistence in infected individuals.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: a.o.pasternak@amc.uva.nl.
authors.forename: Alexander O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Pasternak
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Berkhout
mesh_terms: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes; D015658:HIV Infections; D015497:HIV-1; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles; D017735:Virus Latency
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents