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Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 174, 1661-1664, Copyright © 1991 by Rockefeller University Press
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AR Freedman, FM Gibson, SC Fleming, CJ Spry and GE Griffin
Division of Communicable Diseases, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, United Kingdom.
Normal human bone marrow, cultured in vitro with interleukin 5 to promote eosinophil production and maturation, was inoculated with cell- free isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). CD4 expression by eosinophil precursors, determined by immunocytochemistry, was found to be greatest early in their maturation with a rapid decline after 28 d in culture. Productive HIV infection of eosinophil precursors was detected 14 d after inoculation, by a combination of immunostaining for HIV-1 p24 and gp41/160 and in situ hybridization for viral RNA, together with assay of culture supernatants for p24 antigen and reverse transcriptase activity. Thus, eosinophils are susceptible to productive HIV-1 infection in vitro and may be an important reservoir for the virus in vivo.
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