Edited sentence: AIDS:  persons infected with HIV may at first have no symptoms and show no signs of AIDS, despite HIV replicating in the lymphatic system and rapidly accumulating a large viral load.Clinical latency occurs in:.During clinical latency, an infection is subclinical.These persons may be infectious.This is in contrast to viral latency, a form of dormancy in which the virus does not replicate.With respect to viral infections, in clinical latency the virus is actively replicating