showed a trendP =0.07
During the chronic phase of infection, integrated SIV-DNA in PBMC was also negatively correlated with the peripheral CD4 absolute count (r 2 =−0.67, P =0.04, data not shown) and showed a trend towards a positive correlation with the plasma SIV-RNA level (r 2 =0.61, P =0.07, data not shown).