The Berlin patient is a man with HIV treated with a hematopoietic stem cell transplant from a CCR5-deficient donor, who is considered cured of HIV infection.
El paciente de Berlín es un hombre con VIH tratado con un trasplante de células madre hematopoyéticas de un donante deficiente en CCR5, quien se considera curado de la infección por VIH.
| Front | A man with HIV who was treated in Berlin with a hematopoietic stem cell HSC transplant from a donor deficient in a co-receptor for the virus CCR5 for an unrelated illness leukemia. He is thought to be cured of HIV infection, and is one of the only known patients in which the virus is thought to be completely eliminated, a so-called ‘sterilizing’ cure |
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| Back | Berlin patient |
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