HIV antibody infusions show promise for treating SHIV-infected monkeys

Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 15:01 in Health & Medicine

Two teams are reporting results from experiments in which they infused powerful anti-HIV antibodies into monkeys infected with an HIV-like virus, rapidly reducing the amount of virus, or viral load, to undetectable levels, where it remained for extended periods. Both teams worked with monkeys infected with simian human immunodeficiency virus, or SHIV, which can cause AIDS in monkeys.

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