Mullins Molecular Retrovirology Lab

  • Department of Microbiology
  • School of Medicine
  • University of Washington
University of Washington/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research

Citation Information

Moroni M, Ghezzi S, Baroli P, Heltai S, De Battista D, Pensieroso S, Cavarelli M, Dispinseri S, Vanni I, Pastori C, Zerbi P, Tosoni A, Vicenzi E, Nebuloni M, Wong K, Zhao H, McHugh S, Poli G, Lopalco L, Scarlatti G, Biassoni R, Mullins JI, Malnati MS, Alfano M (2014). Spontaneous control of HIV-1 viremia in a subject with protective HLA-B plus HLA-C alleles and HLA-C associated single nucleotide polymorphisms. Journal of translational medicine, 12, 335. (pubmed) (doi)

Abstract

Understanding the mechanisms by which some individuals are able to naturally control HIV-1 infection is an important goal of AIDS research. We here describe the case of an HIV-1(+) woman, CASE1, who has spontaneously controlled her viremia for the last 14 of her 20 years of infection.