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Immunology
Herpesvirus 6 Prevents HIV Variant From Spreading In Humans
November 19th, 2001
Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), a common virus that is apparently harmless in adults, appears to prevent a form of the AIDS virus from reproducing in laboratory cultures of human tissue, according to a study published in the November 2001 issue of Nature Medicine. The study was led by Leonid Margolis, PhD, of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and included Jean-Charles Grivel, Yoshinori Ito and Wendy Fitzgerald, as well as Paolo Lusso at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy and his coworkers. Specifically, HHV-6 inhibits the HIV variants that transmit infection and are present at its early...
Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-11-19)
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