Evidence for HIV-1 Superinfection
Evidence for HIV-1 Superinfection
Carmen de Mendoza
Puerta de Hierro University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
*Correspondence: Carmen de Mendoza, Email not available
Abstract
Striking virological evidence that HIV-infectedindividuals can become re-infected with a secondstrain of HIV-1 was reported by a Swissgroup at the XIV International AIDS Conference(Jost, et al. Abstract ThOrA1381), held in Barcelonalast July. The report has been publishedlater on (Jost, et al. NEJM 2002;347:731-6).This phenomenon, known as superinfection, hasbeen commonly demonstrated in vitro, as wellas with SIV in non-human primates.
