Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 228

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 228. Question 1 Who is the Berlin patient? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet528624629'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink528624629')) Timothy Ray Brown Arguably the first person to be cured of HIV. There are other patients who have undetectable viral loads and are off antiviral therapy but still contain the virus in the their body. Timothy is the first person to be completely sterilised of HIV. Timothy was diagnosed in 1995 with HIV but in 2006 he developed acute myeloid leukaemia requiring a bone marrow transplant. His doctor, Dr Gero Hutter matched him for a donor with a mutation on the CCR5 receptor. For most HIV viruses the CCR5 receptor is the key for entering the cell, without it the virus fails. [Reference] Question 2 In 1909 I was a protazoan but 90 years later I became a fungus. What am I? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1372145628'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1372145628')) Pneumocystis jiroveci Frenkel, formally PCP Pneumocystis organisms were first reported by Chagas in 1909 but he mistook them for a morphologi...
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