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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: epidemiology, virology, and immunology.

Annual review of medicine ·Vol. 36 ·1985-00-00 ·Pages 545-62

Weiss A, Hollander H, Stobo J

Abstract

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome indicates opportunistic infection or unusual malignancy associated with a marked deficiency of cell mediated immunity in the absence of any other cause of the immune defect. This review examines epidemiology, virology, and immunology associated with this disorder. The syndrome appears to be caused by infection of at-risk individuals by a retrovirus that has tropism for a specific population of T lymphocytes.

MeSH Terms

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/epidemiology,immunology,microbiology Adult Africa, Central Blood Transfusion Deltaretrovirus/isolation & purification Europe Haiti/ethnology Hemophilia A/complications Homosexuality Humans Injections, Intravenous Lymphocytes/immunology Male Middle Aged Retroviridae/isolation & purification Sexual Behavior Substance-Related Disorders Travel United States

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Weiss A

Hollander H

Stobo J

Article Info

Journal

Annual review of medicine

Abbr.

Annu Rev Med

ISSN

0066-4219

DOI

10.1146/annurev.me.36.020185.002553

Published

1985-00-00

Pages

545-62

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

2985151R

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1146/annurev.me.36.020185.002553 View journal details

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