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Offline Betelgeuse

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Supervirus?
« on: May 29, 2011, 04:49:27 am »
Sounds like a super hero. . .   ???

Sorry for the newb question again.

When someone is said to have a "supervirus", does it mean he/she missed a couple of doses of their medication and that the virus mutated into an untreatable strain. . .  or

If you are HIV positive with a particular strain, and for whatever reason another strain is introduced into your system.  Do these two strains form an alliance to make up a super virus?

In reality, how common is this?  How dangerous is this?
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Offline mikeyb39

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Re: Supervirus?
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2011, 10:06:26 am »
I think the 'supervirus' thing is still open for debate with the scientific community.  I know guys that take multi loads all the time and they still remain undetectable. I'm more worried about other types of bugs more than anything else at this point.

pardon my french above, hopefully didn't offend with my dirty talk...lol

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Offline Betelgeuse

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Re: Supervirus?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2011, 11:28:24 pm »
I wanted to share a very kind response I received from Leatherman.  It explained everything so perfectly.

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If someone continues to take meds but constantly stays under 95%, the HIV in their system can possibly mutate making one or all the meds in that regimen uneffective - that's called "resistance".  Resistance is not a guaranteed mutation.

Because some people have already had resistance issues, there are different mutations of HIV floating around that react differently to some meds. Theoritcally, if you are infected with one strain, you could be re-infected with another strain and end up with HIV with so much resistance that you will have a hard time finding a regimen to work. The virus is not "super" just resistance to multiple medications.

However, studies have shown that to become "super infected", a person would be infected by the second strain usually while they were not on treatment. If a person were being successfully treated (ie undetectable) IF they were to encounter another strain of HIV, their meds would destroy this new virus before it got a chance to get a foothold.

Hence, successfully treated people can technically have unprotected sex with other successfully treated people and run no risk of "super infection"; while there is only a theoritical risk if a successfully treated person was to have unsafe sex with a person with a high viral load. super infection really ONLY can happen when both people have high viral loads and is not guaranteed to happen.

Successfully treated people really have no reason at all to be concerned about resistance or super-infection.
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Offline Ann

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Re: Supervirus?
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2011, 10:46:23 am »
The super in superinfection or supervirus is not super as in super-dooper, it's super as in superimposed. One strain of virus on top of the other.
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Offline Betelgeuse

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Re: Supervirus?
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2011, 01:39:00 pm »
I still think it's a good name for a superhero of the 21st century :)
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