HIV Virus discovered

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Domains

Microbes: Bacteria, Viruses, Antibiotics

Dates

Date of occurrence 1984-04-23

Places

France (Location)
United States (Location)

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In 1983 and 1984, research groups led by Dr. Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Dr. Jay Levy at the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Gallo, all identified a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS. Each group called the virus by a different name: LAV, ARV and HTLV-III, respectively. In May four papers from Dr. Gallo’s laboratory demonstrated that the HTLV-III retrovirus was the cause of AIDS. However, the The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 went to Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of "human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of "human immunodeficiency virus". Dr. Gallo was not mentioned.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "HIV Virus discovered". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 February 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=3800, accessed 06 May 2024.]

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