Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants

Re:Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants by ars on Friday July 27, 2012 @05:07AM (#4300607)

"Also, the two patients whose cases were presented at the meeting are still taking anti-retroviral medications normally used to treat HIV-positive patients"

How are they trying to detect HIV while at the same time giving the drugs? The drugs make it impossible to find the HIV.

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Re:Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants by Ergomane on Friday July 27, 2012 @05:58AM (#4300735)

Also note the qualifier: "in their blood cells". HIV reservoirs are not necessarily restricted to blood or blood cell types.

You would expect that these patients need HAART to prevent a reactivating virus from replicating. The Berlin patient is different* because particles generated by a reactivated CCR5-tropic virus cannot infect his new T-lymphocytes.

* though it remains to be seen whether he is truely cured.

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Re:Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants by carbocation on Friday July 27, 2012 @08:10AM (#4300982)

You can easily detect HIV in people taking HAART.

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Re:Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants by ktizo on Friday July 27, 2012 @12:46PM (#4302282)

That depends on what test you run IIRC.

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