"Absence of Recoverable Infectious Virus and Unique Immune Responses in an Asymptomatic HIV⁺ Long-Term Survivor."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, "We have studied a woman with transfusion-acquired HIV who appears to have contained infectious virus to consistently undetectable levels over a 13-year period without antiviral treatment. She received the infected transfusion for intra- and postpartum blood loss immediately after delivery of her second child in 1981. She had no acute febrile syndrome and has never had HIV-associated clinical signs or symptoms in the 13 years since infection. She was first tested and found positive for HIV antibodies in 1985, and the infected blood donor was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and died of...

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