Publication Date:
1984-07-20
Description:
Lymphadenopathy-associated virus ( LAV ), a human T- lymphotrophic retrovirus isolated from a homosexual man with lymphadenopathy, has been causally associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A sensitive and specific radioimmunoprecipitation test was developed for the detection of antibodies to the major core protein of LAV , p25 (molecular weight 25,000). Antibody to LAV p25 was found in the serum of 51 of 125 AIDS patients, 81 of 113 patients with lymphadenopathy syndrome, 0 of 70 workers at the Centers for Disease Control (some of whom had handled specimens from AIDS patients), and 0 of 189 random blood donors. Of a group of 100 homosexual men from San Francisco whose serum was obtained in 1978, only one had antibody to LAV p25; in contrast, of a group of 50 homosexual men in the same community whose serum was obtained in 1984, 12 had antibodies to LAV p25.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kalyanaraman, V S -- Cabradilla, C D -- Getchell, J P -- Narayanan, R -- Braff, E H -- Chermann, J C -- Barre-Sinoussi, F -- Montagnier, L -- Spira, T J -- Kaplan, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Jul 20;225(4659):321-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6330889" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/immunology/*microbiology
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Antibodies, Viral/*immunology
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Blood Donors
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Deltaretrovirus/immunology
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Homosexuality
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Humans
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Male
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Retroviridae/*immunology
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Retroviridae Infections/*immunology
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Viral Proteins/*immunology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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