Research Article

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 codeYear of diagnosisDate of AIDS diagnosis CD4+ T cells/ LaViral load (copy/mL)aFollow-up from Dxb to HAART (Mo)HAARTcDuration of HAART

87-051987NA256115,000314NoneNone
89-171989Jul 02106162,000188Mar 0562
90-051990May 0810394,376221July 0858
90-181990Mar 04112124,000167Apr 04104
90-501990Mar 07116244,000197May 0768
91-201991Aug 07553,886214Aug 0765
92-131992June 07475,800181Jun 0745
93-041993NA297656,000166Nov 069
93-601993NA109121,000182May 0847
96-511996NA169386,543164Dec 0936

CD4+ T cell count and viral load measured just before the initiation of HAART.
bDx: diagnosis.
cHAART: highly active antiretroviral therapy.