Neutralizing antibody to autologous HIV virus isolates in asymptomatic mothers. (Research Report)

AUTHORS: D. Lehman, E. Garratty, S. Plaeger-Marshall and Y.J. Bryson. University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles, California.

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to a joint meeting of the Association for American Physicians, American Society for Clinical Investigation and American Federation for Clinical Research, held May 1-4, 1992, in Baltimore, Maryland, "The presence of high titers of neutralizing antibodies (N AB) to HIV-1 has been associated with asymptomatic stages of HIV-1 suggesting a protective role against disease progression. High maternal AB titers to the gp120 V3 hyper-variable loop were …