文档介绍：Passage1AIDStreatmentVisconti’scoupMar14th2013,21:(thenameisacontractionof“Virologicalandimmunologicalstudiesincontrollersaftertreatmentinterruption”),beingconductedinFrance,—-termremissionmaybepossibleforasmanyas15%,reportedinthePublicLibraryofScience’sjournalPLoSPathogensbyChristineRouziouxofParisDescartesUniversityandhercolleagues,hasfollowedthefatesof14peopletreatedwithantiretroviraldrugsshortlyaftertheywereinfectedwithHIV,andforseveralyearsthereafter,whothen(undermedicalsupervision)’sorganisersreportedtotheInternationalAIDSConferenceinWashington,lastJuly,thisprocedurehasturnedthesepeopleintowhatareknownas“elitecontrollers”—thatis,theystillhavedetectablelevelsofHIVintheirbodiesyearsafterinfection,butevenintheabsenceofdrugtreatmentthoselevelsdonotrisesignificantly,,,butcertainversionsofwhatareknownasHLAgenes(whichregulatecell-surfaceproteinsinsomeimmune-systemcells),,itdidsoearlyandaggressively(onereasonwhytheyweretreatedsoquicklyinthefirstplace).Yet,afteranaverageofthreeandahalfyearstakingantiretroviraldrugs,followedbyanaverageofsevenandahalfyearsnottakingthem,,thepapersuggests,eventhelowlevelsofvirusstillcirculatingintheirbodiesseem,insever