干扰素在治疗获得性免疫缺损综合征(AIDS)病人中,将可能重新获得新的声誉。在美国最近进行的一次试验中,AIDS患者接受α-干扰素治疗后,近半数有卡波济氏肉瘤的AIDS病人的状况得到改善。有些病人的此种皮肤肿瘤似乎完全消失。用常规的药物就能成功地治疗卡波济氏肉瘤,但这种治疗能使A1DS患者增加发生其它“条件致病菌性”感染,病人的免疫系统已经 Interferons will likely regain a new reputation for treating patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In a recent trial in the United States, nearly half of the AIDS patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma had improved their condition after receiving IFN-alpha therapy for AIDS patients. Some patients with this kind of skin tumor seem to completely disappear. Kaposi’s sarcoma can be successfully treated with conventional drugs, but this treatment can increase the incidence of other “conditional pathogenic” infections in patients with A1DS. The patient’s immune system is already