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Cord blood transplantation for cure of HIV infections.
Stem cells translational medicine - 1 Sept 2013
Petz Lawrence
Abstract excerpt
HIV infection has not been cured by antiretroviral drugs or gene therapy, but it has been cured by a hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) that was performed for a patient with acute myeloid leukemia and HIV infection using peripheral blood stem cells from an adult donor homozygous for CCR5-Δ32 (CCR5-Δ32/Δ32). HIV has remained undetectable more than 6 years after discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy....
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