A third person has just been declared cured of AIDS, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Called the “Dusseldorf patient”, in reference to the German city in which he was treated, this 53-year-old man “shows no sign of the presence of the virus in his body and this nine years after his treatment”, do we learn about Science Alert.
Tested positive for HIV in 2008, the “Düsseldorf patient” began to develop leukemia three years later, which was unsuccessfully treated with chemotherapy. In 2013, he returned to the same department, this time to undergo a bone marrow transplant. Virologist Björn-Erik Jensen and his colleagues at Düsseldorf University Hospital then had to “destroy their patient’s bone marrow and replace it with stem cells from a matched donor,” reveals the review Nature.
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