A 12-year-old HIV positive boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia died earlier this month due to graft-versus-host disease complications after undergoing an experimental cord blood transplant in April from a donor with the CCR5-delta-32 mutation, which makes cells resistant to HIV entry, the University of Minnesota announced this week.
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hiv-treatment/hiv-cure/4211-hiv-boy-dies-after-hiv-resistant-stem-cell-transplant-for-leukemia
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hiv-treatment/hiv-cure/4211-hiv-boy-dies-after-hiv-resistant-stem-cell-transplant-for-leukemia
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