(BETA) News Briefs: HIV-2 May Protect against HIV-1
Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, No. 26 September 1995 Ronald Baker, PhD
Results of a Harvard University study among sex workers in Senegal, Africa suggest that infection with HIV-2, a less pathogenic form of the AIDS virus, may protect against infection with HIV-1 (Science 268. June 16, 1995). The new finding may lead to an experimental vaccine for use both as a "preventive" and a "treatment" vaccine in geographical areas such as the U.S., where HIV-1 infection is prevalent. Immunologist Jay Levy, MD, at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), commented that the ability of HIV-2 to confer a protective effect against HIV-1 might be due to the production of CD8 cells and their anti-HIV effects (San Francisco Chronicle. June 16, 1995). For more information on this new finding, see Research Notes.
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