Oldest patient yet cured of HIV after stem cell transplant: Researchers

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LONDON - The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukaemia, researchers reported on Wednesday (July 27). While the transplant was planned to treat the now-66-year-old's leukaemia, the doctors also sought a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, a mechanism that first worked to cure the Berlin...

A digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic image depicts a single, red colored H9-T cell that had been infected by numerous, spheroid shaped, mustard colored human immunodeficiency virus particles attached to the cell's surface membrane.LONDON - The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukaemia, researchers reported on Wednesday .

The latest patient, the fourth to be cured in this way, is known as the City of Hope patient after the US facility in Duarte, California, where he was treated, because he does not want to be identified. After the transplant three and a half years ago, which followed chemotherapy, the City of Hope patient stopped taking ART in March 2021. He has now been in remission from both HIV and leukaemia for more than a year, the team said.

 

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