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New Immune Treatment May Control AIDS Virus
May 2, 2008
By Maggie Fox
A new type of treatment that trains immune system cells to better recognize the AIDS virus may help control the deadly and incurable infection, Australian researchers reported.
Tests on monkeys infected with a similar virus shows the treatment controlled the infection, although it does not cure it, and tests are already planned in people.
The treatment is called OPAL, for Overlapping Peptide-pulsed Autologous Cells, and would be categorized as an immunotherapy technique, or a so-called therapeutic vaccine, Stephen Kent of the University of Melbourne and colleagues said.
© 2008 Reuters
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 5 May 2008
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