Clinical Pathology Selected Abstracts, 6/14
June 2014—How a single patient influenced HIV research: 15-year followup: The hope of a cure for human immunodeficiency virus infection is raised by recent reports of people in whom viral replication spontaneously reduced despite the absence of antiretroviral treatment (ART). A “Berlin patient” described in 1999 was immediately treated with ART and hydroxyurea after an acute HIV infection but chose to discontinue treatment.