Neutralizing antibodies in slowly progressing HIV-1 infection
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HIV-infected people who do not progress quickly to AIDS may be producing natural antibodies against HIV that can neutralize the virus. Researchers took blood samples from 10 HIV-infected people who had CD4+ T cell counts above 450 and 10 HIV-infected people who had CD4+ T cell counts below 200. The former group was considered to have slowly progressing infection (SPI) and the latter to have rapidly progressing infection (RPI). All 20 people had been infected for more than five years. HIV could be isolated from all 10 samples from the RPI group but from only six samples from the SPI group. Blood serum from both groups was incubated with standard viral strains as well as the patient's own viral strain. All of the serum samples neutralized standard viral strains but only serum from the SPI group consistently neutralized their own viral strain.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1077-9450
Year: 1995
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Chemokine receptor polymorphism and autologous neutralizing antibody response in long-term HIV-1 infection
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Neutralizing antibodies in the blood of some HIV patients may contribute to slow progression of the infection. Researchers compared blood levels of the antibodies in 8 patients with slow progression of their HIV infection and 10 patients with rapid progression of their infection. Slow progressors had an average level of neutralizing antibodies of 8.7, compared to an average of 1.6 in rapid progressors. Not all slow progressors, however, had the neutralizing antibodies. The study also revealed an association between chemokine receptor type and the genetic strain of HIV causing infection.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1077-9450
Year: 1998
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No association of HIV-1 envelope (C2-V3-C3) sequence pattern with long-term nonprogression
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The sequence of the HIV envelope protein C2-V3-C3 does not appear to predict the progression of HIV infection, according to a study of 10 non-progressors and 9 progressors. Non-progressors are people infected with HIV who remain healthy for up to 10 years or more.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2000
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