HIV vaccine shows promise in Brazil study
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - An experimental vaccine reduced the level of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by at least 80 percent in a Brazilian study of 18 infected patients released in the journal Nature Medicine.
Viral loads in all patients fell and stayed low for one year after being inoculated with the vaccine three times in a six-week period, the study said. In eight of the patients, viral loads fell by more than 90 percent, according to the article posted on the journal's Web site (nature.com).
Therapeutic dendritic-cell vaccine for chronic HIV-1 infection. Nature [Epub ahead of print]
Author: Lu W
From: Nature medicine
Date: 2004
ISSN: 1078-8956