The girl's story had raised hopes that doctors may have found a way to cure young children who are born HIV-positive, simply by giving them strong anti-retroviral drugs shortly after birth.
"Certainly, this is a disappointing turn of events for this young child, the medical staff involved in the child's care and the HIV/AIDS research community," said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Known widely as the "Mississippi baby," she was born to an HIV-positive mother in 2010 and was given a potent dose of anti-retroviral medication 30 hours after birth.
She continued taking the medications until the age of 18 months, when doctors lost track of her. When she returned five months later, doctors could find no sign of the virus, even though she had not been taking her daily pills.
The child continued to stay off treatment and showed no sign of the virus for more than two years.
"Typically, when treatment is stopped, HIV levels rebound within weeks, not years," said Deborah Persaud, professor of infectious diseases at the John Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore.
Persaud described the child's response as "unprecedented."
Now age four, she was tested during a routine clinical care visit earlier this month, and was found to have detectable HIV levels in her blood.
She also had a decreased T-cell count and the presence of HIV antibodies, signaling that her body was fighting the infection and that HIV was actively replicating again in her body.
The girl, whose identity has not been released, is now being treated once again with anti-retroviral medication and is doing well, Fauci said.
"The case of the Mississippi child indicates that early anti-retroviral treatment in this HIV-infected infant did not completely eliminate the reservoir of HIV-infected cells that was established upon infection but may have considerably limited its development and averted the need for anti-retroviral medication over a considerable period," said Fauci.
Researchers must now turn their attention to understanding why and how the child went into remission, with the hope of extending that time period even further in future cases, he said.
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