German Man with HIV Becomes Third Patient to be Cleared of Virus with Stem-Cell Therapy
A 53-year-old man in Germany, referred to as the "Düsseldorf patient," has become at least the third person to be declared cured of HIV. The man underwent a bone marrow transplant in 2013, replacing his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor who carried the genetic mutation CCR5Δ32/Δ32, which prevents the CCR5 protein from being expressed on the cell surface.
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