Long-term follow-up: no effect of therapeutic vaccination with HIV-1 p17/p24:Ty virus-like particles on HIV-1 disease progression.
Long-term effects of therapeutic vaccination of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1-infected subjects with HIV-1 p17/p24:Ty virus-like particles (p24-VLP) on progression to AIDS, death, a CD4 cell count <or=200 cells/mm(3) and CD4 cell count decline were studied in a multicenter cohort study of 56 individuals who participated in a phase II double-blind placebo-controlled trial with p24-VLP in 1993. Using Cox proportional hazard analysis, no difference between vaccine and placebo groups was found in progression to death (adjusted hazard rate (HR): 0.68 (95% CI: 0.05-7.83), AIDS (adjusted HR: 1.07 (95% CI: 0.21-5.36)) and a CD4 cell count <or=200 cells/mm(3) (adjusted HR: 1.00 (95% CI: 0.35-2.87)). Using linear regression with correction for multiple visits within one person, no effect of vaccination on CD4 cell count decline, adjusted for antiretroviral therapy (ART) use, was found (P=0.98). In conclusion, therapeutic vaccination with p24-VLP is not related to slower HIV-1 disease progression.
Lindenburg
Catharina E A
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The Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam, Cluster Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. klindenburg@gggd.amsterdam.nl
Stolte
Ineke
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Langendam
Miranda W
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Miedema
Frank
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Williams
Ian G
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Colebunders
Robert
R
Weber
Jonathan N
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Fisher
Martin
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Coutinho
Roel A
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