✦ LIBER ✦
Unexpected dramatic increase in CD4+ cell count in a patient with AIDS after enfuvirtide treatment despite persistent viremia and resistance mutations
✍ Scribed by Alessandro Soria; Mariangela Cavarelli; Stefania Sala; Anna Ida Alessandrini; Gabriella Scarlatti; Adriano Lazzarin; Antonella Castagna
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Volume
- 80
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0146-6615
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
An unexpected dramatic immune recovery was observed in a patient with full‐blown AIDS receiving enfuvirtide‐based antiretroviral therapy after multiple treatment failures. A complex interplay of viral and host factors, including the control of X4 viruses and proviral burden, may favor immune restoration with HIV neutralizing activity, despite persistent viremia. J. Med. Virol. 80:937–941, 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.