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HEALTH/MEDICAL Dr. Zabrina Brumme has been appointed director at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada’s leading HIV laboratory program. Brumme will be on secondment from her position as associate professor in the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU); she joined SFU in 2009 as assistant professor, molecular epidemiology of infectious […]

B.C. researchers have discovered a way to identify multiple strains of HIV that lay dormant in the cells of an individual. HIV evolves continually while it is active, storing versions of itself in the DNA of infected cells that then go dormant, waiting to reactivate at some future date, like an archive of genetically unique

Reports have suggested that HIV may be progressing more rapidly in Saskatchewan. Researchers analyzed the genetic sequences of HIV among people in the province. They discovered strains of HIV that have adapted to some people’s immune defences. The immune system consists of a network of cells, tissues and organs, all organized to help defend the

VANCOUVER, BC – The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) announced Dr. Zabrina Brumme has been appointed Director of Canada’s leading HIV laboratory program. . Dr. Brumme will be on secondment from her position as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she additionally holds a Michael

New research warns that mutated strains of HIV detected in Saskatchewan, Canada, appear to be leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses. The research, published this month in the science journal “AIDS“, came about after health workers reported rapidly-growing HIV rates in 2016 in the west Canadian province of Saskatchewan, with the vast majority of cases among

Uma mutação de estirpes do VIH pode levar a um desenvolvimento mais acelerado de doenças relacionadas com a sida, de acordo com um estudo feito na região canadiana de Saskatchewan, que tem das taxas mais altas da doença neste país da AmŽrica do Norte, revela um estudo publicado na revista científica Aids, tambŽm noticiado pelo

A mutated strain of HIV spotted in Canada is driving sufferers to develop AIDS quicker than usual, a study reveals. The strain is circulating in Saskatchewan, where 80 percent of people diagnosed with the illness are Indigenous. Doctors started reporting alarmingly rapid declines among patients in 2016, when the rate of HIV infections rocketed to

Strains circulating in Saskatchewan, where nearly 80% of infected are indigenous, may lead to faster development of related viruses Mutated strains of HIV circulating in a Canadian province where HIV rates rank among the highest in North America could be leading to the more rapid development of Aids-related illnesses, according to new research. The research,

AMSTERDAM – Des souches mutantes de VIH qui circulent en Saskatchewan entraînent le dŽveloppement plus rapide de maladies liŽes au sida chez la population autochtone, affirme une nouvelle Žtude. La recherche du Centre d’excellence sur le VIH / sida de la Colombie-Britannique et de l’UniversitŽ Simon Fraser a ŽtŽ prŽsentŽe jeudi, dans le cadre de