HIV Cure by Bone Marrow Transplant: an Interview of The German Team

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 16, 2010 -- Toulon, France, December 16, 2010 -- An intruiguing HIV-positive case was first reported in 2008 involving a 40-year-old man who received 2 bone marrow transplants for acute myeloid leukemia.

His physician, Gero Hüetter, and his colleagues opted to perform the transplants with cells from a donor having the CCR5 delta-32 deletion, known to confer some sort of HIV resistance.

On December 8, 2010, in a paper published in the well known journal ‘Blood’, the authors conclude that 3.5 years after the initial transplant, this patient has been cured from HIV infection.

The patient has shown no detectable signs of any ongoing HIV infection since the stem cell transplantation procedure, even though he stopped taking HIV medications altogether after the transplantation procedure in 2007.

This case paves a path for constructing a permanent cure for HIV through genetically-engineered stem cells.

On www.hiv-reservoir.net we discuss the implications of this major breakthrough and offer an interview with Gero Hütter, Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Mannheim, Germany, who took care of this patient.

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Alain Lafeuillade
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