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SUBMITTER: Casado C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7002478 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Casado Concepcion C Galvez Cristina C Pernas Maria M Tarancon-Diez Laura L Rodriguez Carmen C Sanchez-Merino Víctor V Vera Mar M Olivares Isabel I De Pablo-Bernal Rebeca R Merino-Mansilla Alberto A Del Romero Jorge J Lorenzo-Redondo Ramon R Ruiz-Mateos Ezequiel E Salgado María M Martinez-Picado Javier J Lopez-Galindez Cecilio C
Scientific reports 20200205 1
Elite controllers (EC) represent a small subset of HIV-1-infected people that spontaneously control viral replication. However, natural virological suppression and absence of immune dysfunction are not always long-term sustained. We define exceptional EC (EEC) as HIV-1 subjects who maintain the EC characteristics without disease progression for more than 25 years. We analyzed three EEC, diagnosed between 1988 and 1992, who never showed signs of clinical disease progression in absence of any anti ...[more]