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Science 26 September 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5334, p. 1927
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5334.1927
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AIDS RESEARCH:
HIV Suppressed Long After Treatment

Jon Cohen

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND--"Anecdote" is one of the most damning things you can say about a scientific report. Still, some anecdotes are provocative, and one caused a stir when it was related at an AIDS meeting here last week: An HIV-infected German man drove the virus down to an "undetectable" level with drugs, stopped taking the drugs, and yet, 9 months later, has not had the virus return. Researchers wonder whether the particular combination of drugs or something specific to this individual may be responsible for keeping the virus suppressed for so long.

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