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This report generated the hypothesis that early antiretroviral treatment (during or very soon after symptomatic seroconversion) allows the incompletely damaged immune system to recover and respond appropriately to virus antigens during treatment interruptions.
Current antiviral therapies include lamivudine and alpha-interferon, but long-term resolution of the disease is disappointing because of low seroconversion rates and the development of drug-resistant viral mutants.
Entry criteria included treatment with HAART before or shortly after HIV-1 seroconversion, viral suppression on HAART to less than 400 RNA copies/ml for 2 mo, HIV-1 viral load at the time of entry into the study of less than 50 RNA copies/ml, and lack of significant mutations conferring drug resistance [11,12].
As expected, the rates of "laboratory infection", defined as the sum of the cases with symptomatic infection and positive seroconversion for each virus, were not significantly different in these two groups.