Janis V. Giorgi - Woodland Hills CA Lance Hultin - West Hills CA
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California - Los Angeles CA
International Classification:
G01N 33569
US Classification:
435 5
Abstract:
The subject invention involves an approach to determining the favorable prognosis of a subject infected with HIV. Specifically, the discovery involves the importance of the elevated presence of MHC class II antigen. sup. + /CD38. sup. - /CD8. sup. bright cells for the prognosis of favorable outcome in HIV-infected subjects. In one example the MHC class II antigen may be HLA-DR.