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Article: Study Shows Even "Dead" HIV Damages Immune System.
- Article from:
- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- August 24, 1998
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Even "dead" HIV that seem to be just quietly hanging around may actually be attacking the immune system, researchers said.
They said this explains why damage to the immune system continues even while strong drugs seem to be controlling HIV infection.
Irvin Chen and colleagues at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine were working with viruses produced by the bodies of people taking the strong drug cocktails - known as highly active antiretroviral therapy or HAART - that have been shown to drive HIV down to almost unmeasurable levels.
"We assumed that the virus made in the presence of HAART should be completely dead and ...