Dr. Deborah Persaud, a virologist with Johns Hopkins Children's Center, was lead author on the report.

CNN: Researchers: Toddler cured of HIV

Dr. Deborah Persaud, a virologist with Johns Hopkins Children's Center, was lead author on the report presented at the conference.

CNN: Researchers: Toddler cured of HIV

In this case, "the child got therapy and then went off therapy, and now there's no detectable virus, " said Deborah Persaud, a pediatrician and AIDS researcher at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore and lead author of a study reporting the cure.

WSJ: Baby Cured of HIV for the First Time, Researchers Say

On Monday, March 4, 2013, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, Dr. Deborah Persaud of the Johns Hopkins University presented an intriguing case study of a child who by all measures seems to be cured of HIV infection.

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