Some individuals are able to spontaneously control HIV replication, the so-called 'elite controllers' (ECs). ECs are crucial for our understanding of HIV infection. While there is more and more evidence pointing towards a role of the innate immune system in elite control, no research has been performed on the role of innate trained immunity in elite control of HIV. In this cross-sectional case-control study, we will study this role of trained immunity in HIV elite control by comparing ECs both to a non-HIV-infected first-degree relative, and to HIV patients who are not elite controllers. In addition, we will study whether HIV itself can induce a trained innate immunity phenotype.
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Direct cytokine responses
Timeframe: 24 hour ex vivo experiment
Cytokine responses after 6-day training
Timeframe: 7 day ex vivo experiment
Transcriptome
Timeframe: 1 year after sample collection
Epigenome
Timeframe: 1 year after sample collection
Immune phenotyping
Timeframe: 1 year after sample collection