AIDS in 1968

Witte, Marlys H.; Witte, Charles L.; Minnich, Linda L.; Finley, Paul R.; Drake, William L.

doi:10.1001/jama.1984.03340440017005

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“…To the Editor.\p=m-\ As a gay man, a Jew, and a physician who takes care of people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, I was offended and angered by the recent letter by Dr Rosner. 1 While it is noble for him to feel obligated to treat patients ("homosexuals and drug addicts") who (he feels) are "evil," maybe he should look for another line of work.…”

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HIV Infection in 1968

Huminer¹

1989

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HIV Infection in 1968

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1989

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“…The To the Editor.\p=m-\ As a gay man, a Jew, and a physician who takes care of people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, I was offended and angered by the recent letter by Dr Rosner. 1 While it is noble for him to feel obligated to treat patients ("homosexuals and drug addicts") who (he feels) are "evil," maybe he should look for another line of work.…”

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Jewish Law and the Obligation of the Physician to Heal Patients With AIDS

Shalit¹

1989

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We disclosed 19 such cases, one ofwhich was the patient described by Garry et al and previously reported by Elvin-Lewis et al3 and Witte et al.4We hope that the retrospective documentation of AIDS virus infection in this patient, as well as a recent finding of positive serological tests for human immunodeficiency virus in another case of "probable AIDS in the pre-AIDS era,"6,6 may encourage other physicians who treated patients included in our re¬ views2,6 to search for serological evi¬ dence ofhuman immunodeficiency virus infection in stored specimens from these patients.

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Documentation of an AIDS Virus Infection in the United States in 1968

Garry

Witte²,

Gottlieb³

et al. 1988

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The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was first recognized as a clinical entity in the United States in the early 1980s; however, the issue of when human immunodeficiency virus, the causative agent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, was introduced into at-risk populations in the United States is unresolved. Previously, we reported the case study of a 15-year-old black male who was admitted to St Louis City Hospital in 1968 for extensive lymphedema of the genitalia and lower extremities. Chlamydial organisms were widely disseminated and isolated from numerous body fluids and organs. Over a 16-month clinical course his condition progressively deteriorated, and at autopsy there was widespread Kaposi's sarcoma of the aggressive, disseminated type. Recently performed Western blot and antigen capture assays on serum and autopsy tissue specimens frozen since 1969 have disclosed that this sexually active teenager was infected with a virus closely related or identical to human immunodeficiency virus type 1. The clinical and immunologic findings together suggest that an immunosuppressive retrovirus existed in the United States before the late 1970s.

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AIDS in 1968

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HIV Infection in 1968

HIV Infection in 1968

Jewish Law and the Obligation of the Physician to Heal Patients With AIDS

Documentation of an AIDS Virus Infection in the United States in 1968

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