Prospects for passive immunity to prevent HIV infection

Prospects for passive immunity to prevent HIV infection

In a Perspective, Lynn Morris and Nonhlanhla Mkhize discuss the prospects for broadly neutralizing antibodies to be used in preventing HIV infection.

Failure to prevent perinatal HIV infection.

Immunity to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection

The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 1996 revolutionized life expectancy and quality of life of people infected by HIV in the developed Countries. Nowadays, HIV-infected patients can positively think that their life expectancy is comparable to that of people of the same age and with the same pattern of risk factors Indeed, there are clear demonstrations that mortality p...

Enhanced Passive Immunity to Streptococcus Infection in Rabbits

The experimental work herein reported tends to justify our hypothesis recently expressed, that the common failure of antibacterial serums to combat active infections when passively transferred to a normal animal, is due not so much to a lack of suitable or sufficient antibodies as to absence of cell preparation or mobilization in the recipient. In the case of experimental streptococcus empyema ...

Intravaginal and intrarectal microbicides to prevent HIV infection.