The transient HIV remission in the Mississippi baby: why is this good news?

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA; jananworanich@hivresearch.org.
² U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Jintanat Ananworanich et al. J Int AIDS Soc. 2014.

. 2014 Nov 20;17(1):19859.

doi: 10.7448/IAS.17.1.19859. eCollection 2014.

¹ U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA; jananworanich@hivresearch.org.
² U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA; Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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