"I think this is really quite significant. It shows the Berlin patient was not just a one-off, that this is a rational approach in limited circumstances," said Daniel Kuritzkes, chief of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was not involved in the study. "Nobody doubted the truth of the report with the Berlin patient, but it was one patient — and which of the many things that were done to him contributed to the apparent cure? It wasn't clear this could be reproduced."

Source: Los Angeles Times March 05, 2019 02:12 UTC