AIDS
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (), suppresses the immune system
related to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A person
infected with HIV gradually loses immune function along with certain immune
cells called CD4 T-lymphocytes or CD4 T-cells, causing the infected person
to b ....
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.... and scientists at the
Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human
retrovirus—a special type of virus that reproduces differently from other
viruses—from the lymph node of a man at risk for AIDS. Nearly
simultaneously, scientists working in the laboratory of American research
scientist Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda,
Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy at the
University of California at San Francisco isolated a r ....
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