Van Rompay K K, Otsyula M G, Marthas M L, Miller C J, McChesney M B, Pedersen N C
California Regional Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis 95616.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1995 Jan;39(1):125-31. doi: 10.1128/AAC.39.1.125.
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of newborn rhesus macaques is a practical animal model of pediatric AIDS. Intravenous inoculation of rhesus newborns with uncloned SIVmac resulted in a high virus load, no antiviral immune responses, severe immunodeficiency, and a high mortality rate within 3 months. In contrast, immediate oral zidovudine (AZT) treatment of SIV-inoculated rhesus newborns either prevented infection or resulted in reduced virus load, enhanced antiviral immune responses, a low frequency of AZT-resistant virus isolates, and delayed disease progression with negligible toxicity. These results suggest that early chronic AZT treatment of human immunodeficiency virus-exposed newborns may have benefits that outweigh its potential side effects.
新生恒河猴感染猿猴免疫缺陷病毒(SIV)是儿童艾滋病的一种实用动物模型。给恒河猴新生儿静脉接种未克隆的SIVmac会导致高病毒载量、无抗病毒免疫反应、严重免疫缺陷以及在3个月内出现高死亡率。相比之下,对接种SIV的恒河猴新生儿立即进行口服齐多夫定(AZT)治疗,要么可预防感染,要么可降低病毒载量、增强抗病毒免疫反应、降低AZT耐药病毒分离株的出现频率,并延缓疾病进展,且毒性可忽略不计。这些结果表明,对暴露于人类免疫缺陷病毒的新生儿进行早期长期AZT治疗可能利大于弊。