Top in ID: Details of new HIV cure case; risk for long COVID declines
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A 60-year-old man in Germany became the seventh person to be considered potentially cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a person with a genetic mutation that prevents infection.
While previous patients received stem cell transplants from donors with two copies of the CCR5-delta 32 mutation, this latest case was from a person with only one copy. Healio spoke with Christian Gaebler, MD, MSc, professor of translational immunology of viral infections at The Charité medical university and hospital in Berlin, about what this means for the future of HIV treatment and the search for a scalable cure.
It was the top story in infectious disease last week.
Another top story was about the risk for long COVID, which has declined since 2020 but is still “substantial,” according to Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center and chief of research and education service at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.
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