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Volume 332:883-884 March 30, 1995 Number 13
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Clearance of HIV — Lessons from Newborns

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AIDS is probably the most intensively studied infectious disease in history, yet enormous gaps remain in our knowledge of its pathogenesis. Clinicians have long been intrigued by the question "Is human immunodeficiency virus type 1 [HIV-1] infection permanent and always (with time) fatal, or do some people recover?" The paper by Bryson and her colleagues1 in this issue of the Journal solves a small but important piece of the puzzle and raises intriguing questions about perinatally transmitted HIV infection.

A child whose mother had HIV infection had negative HIV cultures of blood at birth, but then had two positive blood . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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