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HIV/AIDS
Research from Massachusetts General Hospital yields new data on HIV/AIDS
November 3rd, 2008
"Despite reports of viral genetic defects in persons who control human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) in the absence of antiviral therapy, the extent to which such defects contribute to the long-term containment of viremia is not known. Most previous studies examining for such defects have involved small numbers of subjects, primarily focused on subjects expressing HLA-B57, or have examined single viral genes, and they have focused on cellular proviral DNA rather than plasma viral RNA sequences," scientists in the United States report. "Here, we attempted viral sequencing from 95 HIV-1 elite controllers (EC) who maintained plasma viral loads of <50 RNA...
Source: AIDS Weekly (2008-11-03)
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