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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 1999;281:883-885.

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CHICAGO—Researchers are detecting signs that the immune systems of HIV-infected patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can be at least partly restored—although many questions remain about how fully the battered immune system can be healed. The recovering immune system, an increasing awareness of the importance of the key immune cells in controlling infection, and concerns about drug-resistant HIV were among the issues that took center stage at the Sixth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections held here last month.

DOWN BUT NOT OUT?

As many patients continue to benefit from potent combination therapies that drastically suppress viral replication, the extent to which the embattled immune system can recover from HIV's assault after potent antiretroviral therapy is initiated has come under increasing scrutiny by AIDS researchers.

"There's been real progress this year in research on the reconstitution of the immune system," said Douglas Richman, MD, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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