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a 18-year-old woman in France who became infected with HIV as a baby left antiretroviral drugs 12 years ago and the virus has yet to return to levels detectable on standard blood tests . The woman can not be cured, said Asier Sáez-CIRION of the Pasteur Institute, who presented details of the case at an international AIDS conference to be held in Vancouver, Canada, this week: His group found HIV DNA in his blood cells and pushed them to make new copies of the virus. Sáez-CIRION followed a small cohort of other so-called "post-treatment controllers," but all the other was infected with the virus than adults. He noted that the woman, like other post-treatment controllers, is separate from the 1% of people known as elite controllers that maintain similarly undetectable plasma levels of HIV without treatment. But the elite controllers, unlike post-treatment controllers, keep the virus at bay in the first days of infection and immune response in many cases that explains how they counteract the virus. The hope is that this new case may help clarify how the post-treatment controllers keep the virus in check and then use this information to inform both the cure and vaccine research.
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