The Relationship Between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Definition of AIDS
3. The Designation AIDS is a Surveillance Tool
4. Quantifying the Epidemic
5. A Brief History of the Emergence of AIDS
6. Initial Theories
7. Retrovirus Hypothesis
8. Seroprevalence Surveys
9. HIV and Other Lentiviruses
10. Course of HIV Infection
11. Immunologic Profile of People With AIDS
12. Mechanisms of CD4+ T Cell Depletion
13. Koch's Postulates Fulfilled
14. Evidence From Animal and Laboratory Models
15. Geographic Considerations
16. Evidence From Blood Donor-Recipient Pairs
17. Impact of HIV Infection on Mortality of Hemophiliacs
18. Pediatric AIDS
19. Single Source Outbreak of Pediatric AIDS
20. Answering the Skeptics: the "Risk-AIDS" or "Behavioral Hypothesis"
21. AIDS and Injection Drug Users
22. Sex and the AIDS Epidemic
23. Drug Use in the Pre-AIDS Era
24. AZT and AIDS
25. Disease Progression Despite Antibodies
26. Risks Associated With Transfusion
27. Exposure to Factor VIII
28. Distribution of AIDS Cases
29. AIDS in Africa
30. Conclusion
31. References

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