The Yellow Brick Road towards HIV Eradication

Asier Saez-Cirion (1) , Michaela Muller-Trutwin (1)

1 HIV, Inflammation et persistance - HIV, Inflammation and Persistence

A London patient living with HIV-1 has become the second person to achieve remission from HIV-1 infection for >1 year after receiving a bone marrow stem cell transplant from a donor with cells resistant to CCR5-tropic HIV-1 infection (Gupta et al. Nature 2019;568:244-248). This case provides important clues in the uncertain path towards an HIV cure.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Médecine humaine et pathologie; Maladies infectieuses

Asier Saez-Cirion, Michaela Muller-Trutwin. The Yellow Brick Road towards HIV Eradication. Trends in Immunology, 2019, 40 (6), pp.465-467. ⟨10.1016/j.it.2019.04.006⟩. ⟨pasteur-02549899⟩