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RETROSPECTIVE Volume 349:2283-2285 December 11, 2003 Number 24 Next

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Progress in scientific research rarely follows a straight path. Generally, it entails many unexpected meanderings, with a mix of good and bad ideas, good and bad luck. The discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS did not avoid this pattern.

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View larger version (64K): [in this window] [in a new window]   T Lymphocyte Infected by HIV. Photograph by Lennart Nilsson, M.D., Stockholm, Sweden, 1985.

 

View larger version (84K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Surface of a T Lymphocyte Infected by HIV. Photograph by Lennart Nilsson, M.D., Stockholm, Sweden, 1985.

 
The story began in an unfavorable environment: during the late 1970s, many people thought that epidemic diseases caused by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute and University of Maryland, Baltimore (R.C.G.); and the World Foundation AIDS Research and Prevention, Paris (L.M.).

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