Also note the qualifier: "in their blood cells". HIV reservoirs are not necessarily restricted to blood or blood cell types. You would expect that these patien

Also note the qualifier: "in their blood cells". HIV reservoirs are not necessarily restricted to blood or blood cell types. You would expect that these patients need HAART to prevent a reactivating virus from replicating. The Berlin patient is different* because particles generated by a reactivated CCR5-tropic virus cannot infect his new T-lymphocytes. * though it remains to be seen whether he is truely cured.