Rwandan patients show unusual HIV
By Nathan Seppa
From Chicago, at the 41st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Routine testing of people in Rwanda who have had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for many years without getting AIDS indicates that many are infected with a virus harboring a rare mutation.
Researchers tested the blood of 16 people who have had HIV for at least 12 years but haven’t taken medicine for it and haven’t developed AIDS. The concentrations of T cells in the patients’ blood, which gauges viral destruction of these immune cells, didn’t fall drastically during the years of testing.