Word: cd4
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STRAIN OF THE AIDS VIRUS EMERGED, threatening to ravage the world like its better-known cousin? That looked possible last summer, when scientists at an international AIDS conference reported on patients who had strikingly low levels of CD4 cells -- the same immune-system cells that are destroyed in AIDS sufferers -- but were not infected by the HIV virus...
...acid RNA) surrounded by a protein coat. A virus lacks the tools to reproduce unless it invades a living cell and takes over the host's molecular machinery. The intruder can then produce many copies of itself, eventually killing the cell. One of HIV's favorite targets is the CD4 T-cell, an important player in the human immune system...
...this does not add up to stagnation. Your reporter appears to have lapsed into the facile view that their lack of technology implies a lack of ability. We learned as much from them about the doctor's role in advocating social change as they did from us about CD4 cell counts in HIV-positive patients. The challenges they face in rationing care will soon be a reality here as well. As future colleagues, we paid their way here in order to share, not to "help" or "be helped." What is a pity is that fledgling efforts at international communication...
Groopman was one of the first to test AZT, oneof the most common drugs used today to treat AIDSpatients. Hirsch was among the first to showincreased effectiveness of a combination of AZTand another preventative drug, CD4...