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• Administering monoclonal antibodies ( mAbs ) is a form of passive immunotherapy.
• Passive immunotherapy has been tried for AIDS since 1985.
• Passive immunotherapy has potential benefit in treatment of chikungunya.
• Passive immunotherapies enhance existing anti-tumor responses and include the use of monoclonal antibodies, lymphocytes and cytokines.
• Passive immunotherapy is effective in preventing or curing some other infections, even in people whose immune systems have been severely suppressed.
• The authors said the study shows that the transfusion therapy, called passive immunotherapy, is safe and offers some clinical benefit.
• Passive immunotherapy involves administration of anti-CHIKV hyperimmune human intravenous antibodies ( immunoglobulins ) to those exposed to a high risk of chikungunya infection.
• Studies in animals using passive immunotherapy have been effective, and clinical studies using passive immunotherapy in those particularly vulnerable to severe infection are currently in progress.
• Studies in animals using passive immunotherapy have been effective, and clinical studies using passive immunotherapy in those particularly vulnerable to severe infection are currently in progress.
• Nevertheless, the authors of the study concluded that passive immunotherapy might be more effective in treating people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, than was previously believed.
• Dr . Richard Haubrich, an AIDS researcher at the University of California, San Diego, cited experiments with passive immunotherapy in the United States and said the data on benefits were inconclusive.
• Treatment using a transfusion of plasma from Ebola survivors, a form of  passive immunotherapy,  since it contains antibodies able to fight the virus, has been used with apparent success on a number of patients.
• The plasma injections, known as passive immunotherapy, resulted in a threefold decrease in the cumulative number of such adverse events, said the French team, headed by Dr . J . J . Lefrere at the Hopital Saint-Antoine in Paris.