Clearance of HIV

[FRANCIS MILLER]

For anyone interested in reading about the recent news about the boy who 
apparently cleared an HIV infection, here's the info:

        Bryson, Y. J., et al.
	Clearance of HIV infection in a perinatally infected infant
	The New England Journal of Medicine.
	30 March 1995.  vol. 332, no. 13, pp 833-838.

I am pretty convinced that this happened.  I have heard the argument that 
maternal antibodies remain in an infant for up to 14 months, however, the 
child was PCR positive for HIV-1 at 33 days and consistently negative after 
14 months.  Regardless of antibodies, the child had HIV-1 viral DNA 
sequences in his body, and 14 months later did not.

-Francis Miller