ImmunologybioRxiv
The relative contributions of infectious and mitotic spread to HTLV-1 persistence
D. J. Laydon, V. Sunkara, L. Boelen…·B. Asquith
This paper estimates the ratio of infectious to mitotic spread of HTLV-1 during chronic infection and finds that infectious spread persists at low levels after proviral load reaches set point.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007470