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lymphadenopathy-associated virus

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lymphadenopathy-associated virus
n. Abbr. LAV
See HIV.


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Luc Montagnier in France isolates lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), later to become known as human immunodeficiency virus or HIV.
Gone is the bleak pessimism that accompanied diagnosis of infection with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III or lymphadenopathy-associated virus, as the virus was formerly known (4).
Shortly afterwards, a French doctor discovered the lymphadenopathy-associated virus later known as the (the human immunodeficiency virus HIV) caused Aids.
 
 
 
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