Pilot study of a combination of highly active antiretroviral therapy and cytokines to induce HIV-1 remission
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Giving HIV patients highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), interleukin, and gamma-interferon inhibits viral reproduction and boosts the immune system but does not necessarily completely eliminate the virus from the body. This was the conclusion of a study of 10 HIV patients who received this aggressive treatment.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2001
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HIV-1 induction-maintenance at the lymph node level: the "Apollo-97" study
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The authors report on a test to determine if treatment of HIV-infected patients beginning with a combination of five drugs would be more effective in reducing viral load in the lymph nodes than the triple-drug therapy currently in use. Tests showed it was no more effective than using three drugs alone. The reason that high viral loads remain in the lymphoid tissue does not seem to be attributable to lack of drug potency.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2001
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French National sentinel survey of antiretroviral drug resistance in patients with HIV-1 primary infection and in antiretroviral-naive chronically infected patients in 2001-2002
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The frequency of genotypic antiretroviral resistance and the spread of non-B subtypes in patients with primary HIV-1 infection (2001-02) and in treatment-naive chronically HIV-infected patients (2001) are studied. While, the frequency of HIV-1 resistance in untreated patients was not significantly higher in 2001-2002, the prevalence of non-B subtypes is increasing.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2005
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- Abstracts: Prevalence and predictors of highly active antiretroviral therapy use in patients with HIV infection in the United States
- Abstracts: Comparison of drug resistance mutations and their interpretation in patients infected with non-B HIV-1 variants and matched patients infected with HIV-1 subtype B