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Investigators at Dartmouth College Have Published New Data on HIV/AIDS

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 22nd, 2011

2011 MAR 22 -- "Preventive immunization with whole inactivated Mycobacterium vaccae (MV) confers protection against HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) in BCG-immunized adults with CD4 counts >= 200 cells/mu l. We evaluated the immunogenicity of MV in the 2013 subjects of the phase III DarDarTrial using an interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), tritiated thymidine lymphocyte proliferation assay (LPA) and an ELISA for antibodies to the TB glycolipid lipoarabinomannan (LAM)," researchers in Lebanon report.

"MV immunization boosts IFN-gamma and LPA responses to MV sonicate, and antibody responses to LAM," wrote T. Lahey and...

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