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Baby apparently cured of HIV "deserved our best shot," says doctor
by CBS News
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Updated today at 4:10 PM
The news that a baby who was born with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appears to be cured and medication-free more than 2.5 years later has sent ripples through the scientific community.
Researchers on Sunday reported that a doctor started a baby from Mississippi on an aggressive three-drug HIV treatment regimen within only 30 hours of birth. That atypical treatment appeared to remove the virus completely from the baby's bloodstream before it could form disease reservoirs, which are HIV-infected dormant cells that can rapidly re-infect a person once medication is stopped, explained Dr. Deborah Persaud, an associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Children's Center who led the investigation into the child's case...
Baby apparently cured of HIV "deserved our best shot," says doctor
by CBS News
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Updated today at 4:10 PM
The news that a baby who was born with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appears to be cured and medication-free more than 2.5 years later has sent ripples through the scientific community.
Researchers on Sunday reported that a doctor started a baby from Mississippi on an aggressive three-drug HIV treatment regimen within only 30 hours of birth. That atypical treatment appeared to remove the virus completely from the baby's bloodstream before it could form disease reservoirs, which are HIV-infected dormant cells that can rapidly re-infect a person once medication is stopped, explained Dr. Deborah Persaud, an associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Children's Center who led the investigation into the child's case...