They Might Be Giants: Does Syncytium Formation Sink or Spread HIV Infection?

Alex A Compton; Olivier Schwartz

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006099

They Might Be Giants: Does Syncytium Formation Sink or Spread HIV Infection?

PLoS Pathog. 2017 Feb 2;13(2):e1006099. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006099. eCollection 2017 Feb.

Authors

Alex A Compton¹, Olivier Schwartz^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Virus & Immunity Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
² CNRS-URA 3015, Paris, France.
³ Vaccine Research Institute, Creteil, France.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Giant Cells / virology*
HIV / physiology*
HIV Infections / virology*
Humans

Grants and funding

Work in the unit is supported by grants from the ANRS, the “CHIKV-Viro-Immuno” ANR-14-CE14-0015-01 and “TIMTAMDEN” ANR-14-CE14-0029 projects, the Labex IBEID program ANR-10-IHUB-0002, the Vaccine Research Institute, and Institut Pasteur. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.