Transplanting HIV-resistant white blood cells cures HIV infection
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Transplanting HIV-resistant white blood cells or hematopoietic stem cells carrying the CCR5 mutation has successfully cured HIV in a small number of patients who underwent allogeneic transplants.
what the evidence does support
Transplanting HIV-resistant white blood cells has successfully cured HIV in a small number of specific patients undergoing allogeneic transplants.
Evidence for · 4
High frequency CCR5 editing in human hematopoietic stem progenitor cells protects xenograft mice from HIV infection.
2025 · cited by 9
Hematopoietic stem cell transplants incorporating cells with the homozygous CCR5 delta32 deletion have achieved the only documented cures of HIV infection.
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