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HIV-Negative AIDS?
#133535 - 01/25/05 10:38 PM
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"Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia, or ICL, is an immunodeficiency syndrome in which human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, cannot be detected. Because HIV is the causative agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), ICL can be referred to as Non-HIV AIDS. As in AIDS patients, Non-HIV AIDS patients exhibit reduced numbers of CD4+ T-lymphocytes, and many Non-HIV AIDS patients have developed the opportunistic infections or otherwise rare cancers associated with AIDS.
Non-HIV AIDS patients may comprise perhaps one percent of all AIDS patients. While the majority of Non-HIV AIDS patients do not belong to any of the risk groups such as blood transfusion recipients, male homosexuals, and intravenous drug abusers in which AIDS was first identified, some Non-HIV AIDS patients do belong to these groups. This suggests that Non-HIV AIDS may also be transmissible.
Research conducted at Tulane University Medical Center suggests that Non-HIV AIDS is associated with a retroviral particle called Human Intracisternal A-Type Particle-Type II, or HIAP-II. Antibodies to this particle have been found in a high percentage of patients with Non-HIV AIDS. Tulane has patented HIAP-II, and Autoimmune Technologies is licensing HIAP-II technology in order to develop screening and diagnostic tests and therapies for Non-HIV AIDS and to study the possibility of generating vaccines against Non-HIV AIDS, autoimmune disease, and AIDS.
For information about diagnostic testing, go to the Non-HIV AIDS Laboratory Test Page .
This material is not intended to take the place of a physician's advice.
Go to the Autoimmune Technologies Home Page"
{http://www.autoimmune.com/Non-HIVAIDSGen.html}
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"Idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia is still talked about, from time to time, in the medical literature. Granted, most time it is talked about is in case reports, published by a doctor describing an opportunistic infection/complication in a patient or two with ICL. Some experts believe that, when you look at a very large sample of individuals, there will always be a handful of folks who have CD4+ cell counts that are “naturally” lower than the normal range, making them more susceptible to otherwise rare complications. Moreover, some cases of ICL have different biological characteristics than others, meaning that nothing has been documented tying cases of ICL together.
From what I understand, the cause of ICL is still very much elusive.
ICL is not necessarily a progressive disease, meaning that the CD4+ cell count doesn’t tend to dwindle as time goes on. A low CD4+ cell count in ICL tends to hit a plateau and remain there indefinitely. Interleukin-2 has been evaluated – with encouraging results – as a treatment for ICL, but the mainstay therapy involves treating opportunistic infections if and when they arise. "
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Tim Horn
Retrovirus Expert for aidsmeds.com
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SO what does this mean? YOu can have AIDS without showing HIV antibodies ? I mean straight AIDS without having to go through the HIV stages or what ? OR does it mean that you have all the stuff going on which seems like HIV but without being positive ? wouldnt that be like a system shutdown and a wasting period or something ? I am cinfused here.
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