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Article: Virus-specific cytotoxic T cells found in breast milk.(Brief Article)
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- AIDS Weekly
- Article date:
- August 5, 2002
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2002 AUG 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Mother's milk contains cells that are capable of suppressing HIV infection, researchers in the United States and Africa report.
"Breast-feeding infants of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women ingest large amounts of HIV, but most escape infection," explained Steffanie Sabbaj and colleagues working with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Columbia University in New York City, Boston University, and the Zambia Exclusive Breast-Feeding Study based in Lusaka, Zambia.
HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are present in milk from infected mothers, and ...