METHOD FOR DETERMINING IMMUNE STATUS, METHOD FOR PREDICTING INCREASE IN NUMBER OF CD4+ T CELLS, METHOD FOR PREDICTING DECREASE IN NUMBER OF CD4+ T CELLS, AND KIT THEREFOR

摘要

Provided is a method for determining the immune status of a patient after starting treatment using an anti-human immunodeficiency virus drug, said method including a detection step for detecting a transcript up to 200 bases from a transcription start point of human immunodeficiency virus RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and a step for evaluating whether the patient's immunity is in an activated state using the detection or non-detection of the transcript as an index.