Researchers found an “unusually high number of people” in the Democratic Republic of Congo who have tested positive for HIV antibodies but show no signs of the live virus – without the use of treatments and refer to as HIV “elite controllers.

Dr. Carol McArthur, a professor in the Department of oral and craniofacial sciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry and director of residency research in pathology at the Truman Medical Center, said every new HIV discovery is “another piece in the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle.”

Dr. McArthur is a researcher and one of the authors of the findings published yesterday in an article, “A high prevalence of potential HIV elite controllers identified over 30 years in Democratic Republic of Congo”, published in EBioMedicine, part of The Lancet family of medical publications.

Read more about the findings and article here and also here.