The second case in the world: self-healing of AIDS without drug treatment is not a special case!

On November 16, a research team from the agon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard published a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a report This is the world’s second HIV-infected person who achieved sterilizing cure without treatment

Researcher Xu Yu from the Lagen Institute mentioned, “Like the first HIV-infected person reported by Nature in 2020 who healed without any treatment-the'San Francisco patient', both patients have special lethal T Cells

Clinically, a small number of HIV-infected people are called "elite controllers".

But usually, these "elite controllers" still have "pre-virus" repositories with the ability to replicate

The special feature of this patient is that the HIV reservoir was cleared

The second case of self-healing HIV-infected person is called "Esperanza patient".

The researchers further explained that if they can understand the immune response mechanism behind self-healing, they are expected to develop new treatments that will allow other people's immune systems to mimic these responses in response to HIV infection

At present, researchers are considering the development of vaccines to allow antiretroviral therapists to imitate this special immune response and instruct their immune system to control the virus without receiving antiretroviral therapy, which is expected to benefit more HIV Infected

Reference

[1] Martin Bødtker Mortensen, Børge Grønne Nordestgaard.

[2] Baris Gencer, et al.