Possible clearance of transfusion-acquired nef/LTR-deleted attenuated HIV-1 infection by an elite controller with CCR5 Δ32 heterozygous and HLA-B57 genotype

• Main Authors: John Zaunders (Author), Wayne B. Dyer (Author), Melissa Churchill (Author), C Mee Ling Munier (Author), Philip H. Cunningham (Author), Kazuo Suzuki (Author), Kristin McBride (Author), Will Hey-Nguyen (Author), Kersten Koelsch (Author), Bin Wang (Author), Bonnie Hiener (Author), Sarah Palmer (Author), Paul R. Gorry (Author), Michelle Bailey (Author), Yin Xu (Author), Mark Danta (Author), Nabila Seddiki (Author), David A. Cooper (Author), Nitin K. Saksena (Author), John S. Sullivan (Author), Sean Riminton (Author), Jenny Learmont (Author), Anthony D. Kelleher (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Subject C135 is one of the members of the Sydney Blood Bank Cohort, infected in 1981 through transfusion with attenuated nef/3' long terminal repeat (LTR)-deleted HIV-1, and has maintained undetectable plasma viral load and steady CD4 cell count, in the absence of therapy. Uniquely,...