Brun-Vézinet F, Rouzioux C, Montagnier L, Chamaret S, Gruest J, Barré-Sinoussi F, Geroldi D, Chermann JC, McCormick J, Mitchell S. Prevalence of antibodies to lymphadenopathy-associated retrovirus in African patients with AIDS.
Science 1984;
226:453-6. [PMID:
6238406 DOI:
10.1126/science.6238406]
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Abstract
The presence of antibodies to lymphadenopathy-associated retrovirus (LAV) was determined by a radioimmunoprecipitation assay and by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent solid assay of sera from Zairian patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1983. Thirty-five of 37 patients (94 percent) and 32 of 36 patients (88 percent), respectively, were seropositive by the two tests. In a control group of 26 patients, six (23 percent) showed positive results in these tests. Of these six control patients, five had clinically demonstrable infectious diseases and a low ratio of T4 to T8 lymphocytes. In addition, sera collected from a control group of Zairian mothers in 1980 were positive for LAV in 5 of 100 cases. Other serologic data suggest that LAV was present as early as 1977 in Zaire.
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