Effects of Korean Red Ginseng and HAART on vif Gene in 10 Long-Term Slow Progressors over 20 Years: High Frequency of Deletions and G-to-A Hypermutation
Table 1
Characteristics of 10 long-term slow progressors.
Patient code
Year of diagnosis
Date of AIDS diagnosis
CD4+ T cells/La
Viral load (copy/mL)a
Follow-up from Dxb to HAART (Mo)
HAARTc
Duration of HAART
87-05
1987
NA
256
115,000
314
None
None
89-17
1989
Jul 02
106
162,000
188
Mar 05
62
90-05
1990
May 08
103
94,376
221
July 08
58
90-18
1990
Mar 04
112
124,000
167
Apr 04
104
90-50
1990
Mar 07
116
244,000
197
May 07
68
91-20
1991
Aug 07
55
3,886
214
Aug 07
65
92-13
1992
June 07
47
5,800
181
Jun 07
45
93-04
1993
NA
297
656,000
166
Nov 06
9
93-60
1993
NA
109
121,000
182
May 08
47
96-51
1996
NA
169
386,543
164
Dec 09
36
CD4+ T cell count and viral load measured just before the initiation of HAART.
bDx: diagnosis.
cHAART: highly active antiretroviral therapy.