On 3-30-95 Venthan wrote:
<Could anybody please send me any information on passive immunisation
treatment of AIDS patients? Is it true that AIDS sufferers are helped by
HIV blood? I heard of an article that suggested that that may be the case
- in the Independant on Sunday 2/10/94.>
A recent article published by J.J. Lefrere et al. in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v.92 p1195-1199 discusses
the results of a randomized study in which asymptomatic HIV-1 positive
plasma was collected and transfused into patients with stage IV HIV
infection (as defined by the CDC).
Jim Martin
Northwestern University Medical School
Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases
