{"id":14179,"date":"2010-12-01T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=14179"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:00:03","slug":"natural-immunity-to-hiv-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/14179","title":{"rendered":"Natural immunity to HIV infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard Jefferys, TAG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1st November 2010 supplement to the Journal of Infectious Diseases features a suite of articles about individuals who remain HIV negative despite repeated exposure to the virus. [1]<\/p>\n<p>The articles represent summaries of oral presentations given at the International Symposium on Natural Immunity to HIV that was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in November 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The potential importance of studying highly exposed but seronegative individuals was emphasised by Gregg Gonsalves in a report on HIV basic science that TAG issued in 1993 [2]; seventeen years later, a concerted effort appears to be underway to better understand the phenomenon and glean lessons for designing biomedical prevention approaches (particularly vaccines).<\/p>\n<p>There has already been a follow-up to the Winnipeg meeting: in July of this year, the National Institutes of Health sponsored a workshop in Rockville to further discuss the formation of an international research consortium (the workshop agenda is available online). [3]<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the JID supplement is not open access, the content will become freely available after 12 months. However a report from the Winnipeg symposium that describes key presentations and outlines the consortium model was prepared by the International Center for Infectious Diseases and is posted to their website. [4]<\/p>\n<p>Source: TAG basic science blog. (11 October 2010).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tagbasicscienceproject.typepad.com\/tags_basic_science_vaccin\/2010\/10\/natural-immunity-to-hiv-infection.html\">http:\/\/tagbasicscienceproject.typepad.com\/tags_basic_science_vaccin\/2010\/10\/natural-immunity-to-hiv-infection.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Journal of Infectious Diseases: 1 November 2010.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/toc\/jid\/2010\/202\/S3\">http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/toc\/jid\/2010\/202\/S3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gonsalves G. Basic research on HIV infection: a report from the front. TAG, June 1993.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebody.com\/content\/art1408.html\">http:\/\/www.thebody.com\/content\/art1408.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Workshop on HIV\u0097Exposed and Resistant, 8\u00969 July 2010, Rockville, MD, USA.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blsmeetings.net\/HIVExposedResistant\/Agenda5.pdf\"> http:\/\/www.blsmeetings.net\/HIVExposedResistant\/Agenda5.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>International Symposium on Natural Immunity to HIV. 15\u009617 November<br \/>\n2009, Winnipeg, USA.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icid.com\/isnih\/pdf\/presentations\/ISNIH_Nov2009_%20Report%20FINAL.pdf\"> http:\/\/www.icid.com\/isnih\/pdf\/presentations\/ISNIH_Nov2009_%20Report%20FINAL.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jefferys, TAG The 1st November 2010 supplement to the Journal of Infectious Diseases features a suite of articles about individuals who remain HIV negative despite repeated exposure to the virus. [1] The articles represent summaries of oral presentations given &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-science-and-immunology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}