Possible HIV cure after second patient goes into long-term remission
Canberra - A bone-marrow stem cell transplant has led to a patient with human immunodeficiency virus going into long-term remission, meaning he might become the second person to be cured of the disease.
There has been only one documented case of HIV, which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome , being cured. Twelve years ago the "Berlin patient" received a bone-barrow transplant of stem cells from a donor with two copies of the mutation of the gene CCR5, known to be resistant to HIV. Numerous attempts to replicate the procedure have not been successful until now, with the latest case dubbed that of the "London patient."
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