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Article: Antibodies May Lead to Protection Against HIV
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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Some long-term survivors of HIV infection produce rare and
extremely potent antibodies that keep the disease from progressing
to AIDS, and might point to a way to protect uninfected people from
the virus, researchers reported yesterday in the closing hours of
the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
The antibodies, against a particular part of a much-studied HIV
protein called gp120, might prove useful as a microbicide for
blocking infection during sexual intercourse. If researchers could
find a way to prompt the immune system to make its own supply of the
antibodies before encountering the virus, they would have a vaccine.
"I think the road is long before we reach that ...
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