. . . . . . . "[CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, CD19(+) B cells, and CD14(+) monocytes were purified from PBMCs. mtDNA levels were quantified using real-time polymerase chain reaction and compared among the 2 groups of HIV-infected patients and a group of HIV-negative control subjects. mtDNA levels in a separate group of ART-naive patients stratified by the rate of disease progression were also evaluated with respect to their relationship to immune-activation markers (i.e., CD38 and programmed cell death-1 [PD-1]) on CD8(+) T cells and the rate of CD4(+) T cell loss.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2017-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2017-10-17T13:11:18+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v5.0.0.0" . "v5.0.0" .