The Relationship Between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease - September 1995
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Definition of AIDS
- The Designation AIDS is a Surveillance Tool
- Quantifying the Epidemic
- A Brief History of the Emergence of AIDS
- Initial Theories
- Retrovirus Hypothesis
- Seroprevalence Surveys
- HIV and Other Lentiviruses
- Course of HIV Infection
- Immunologic Profile of People With AIDS
- Mechanisms of CD4+ T Cell Depletion
- Koch's Postulates Fulfilled
- Evidence From Animal and Laboratory Models
- Geographic Considerations
- Evidence From Blood Donor-Recipient Pairs
- Impact of HIV Infection on Mortality of Hemophiliacs
- Pediatric AIDS
- Single Source Outbreak of Pediatric AIDS
- Answering the Skeptics: the "Risk-AIDS" or "Behavioral Hypothesis"
- AIDS and Injection Drug Users
- Sex and the AIDS Epidemic
- Drug Use in the Pre-AIDS Era
- AZT and AIDS
- Disease Progression Despite Antibodies
- Risks Associated With Transfusion
- Exposure to Factor VIII
- Distribution of AIDS Cases
- AIDS in Africa
- Conclusion
- References
DT 950901
DOCN: NIAID95_FACT_SHEET_HIVAIDS
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