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Associated Press - Saturday, November 7, 1998
Speaking to Thai researchers Friday at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, Gallo, credited for co-discovering HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, said he was more confident of a vaccine than a year ago.
"Recent researches make me confident that we will have something in the form of a preventive vaccine, say, in the coming three or four years," Gallo was quoted by The Nation newspaper as saying.
Gallo said recent laboratory studies show that a protein in the urine of women early in pregnancy can inhibit the replication of HIV virus in the test tube.
Study on a vaccine is meanwhile under way on 80 volunteers in several European countries and Israel made by combining interferon, used in treating Hepatitis B and cancer, with TAT, an HIV-generated protein.
Trials are likely to begin in the United States after it receives approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, possibly in February, Gallo was quoted by the Bangkok Post as saying.
Clinical trials could begin in Thailand after that, he said. Gallo is a director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, Maryland.
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